Microsoft founder Bill Gates in India backed the need for more institutions of higher learning and technology transfer in the form of skilled workers between India and US.
And one of India's most ambitious citizens mapping exercise, the Unique ID project, also got approval from him. He suggested that the government put the unique ID for multiple use and make sure that the quality of data is very good. Given the experiences of multiple countries that have rolled out a project of a similar kind, Gates had a few suggestions for the Indian government.
The Bangalore-based India unit of Microsoft Research has completed five years and is now attracting very good talent from across the world. Gates said that India needed to set up more and more such institutions so that research could get a big boost. But with falling number of students opting for higher education, he wants the government to take urgent steps.
Gates also suggested that US government should allow more skilled techies into the country to ensure that the edge of the US is not blunted. The number of visas for techies has fallen from 195,000 earlier to over 65,000 now, choking US companies and institutions.
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