What can be amiss when Maharashtra, among the top three richest states in India, seeks a partnership with one of the world’s largest philanthropy organisations that has been shown to relentlessly pursue an agenda benefitting private corporations? Plenty, but Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis would not have paid attention to any of it when he welcomed and interacted with Bill Gates, Microsoft co-founder and chairman of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, in Mumbai. Reports say that Mr Gates expressed a commitment to support some of the women-centric initiatives that have been recently taken, such as the Ladki Bahin Yojana and Lakhpati Didi Yojana,........

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