Bill & Melinda Gates Foundations partially funds GSCOE-TECHIN
Mr. Bill Gates, Microsoft founder and Co-Chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, visited the office of Prof Ajay Kumar Sood, Principal Scientific Adviser to the Government of India on 01 March 2023. IIT Palakkad was invited to this meeting held at Vigyan Bhawan Annex, New Delhi to give a presentation on the Global Sanitation Centre of Excellence (GSCoE) of IIT Palakkad. A team led by Prof A Seshadri Sekhar, Director, IIT Palakkad with Ms Anuradha Shankar of TECHIN, IIT Palakkad and Dr Nimish Shah, MD, IAPMO met with Mr Bill Gates. The Global Sanitation Center of Excellence (GSCOE) established in Jan 2022 at the Technology Innovation Foundation of IIT Palakkad (TECHIN) is partially funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Mr Gates greatly appreciated the focus on using science and technology to find sanitation solutions.