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Another place that India leads uh but
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there's a lot more that all of you can
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be involved in driving forward is this
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digital uh public infrastructure. You
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know no country is more able to take
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government benefits and get them out
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efficiently and effectively to their
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uh than India. You know you would have
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expected rich countries or others to do
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that but in fact uh uh they did not. And
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so that basic structure that starts with
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identity and bank accounts and payments
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is is just foundational.
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And as part of this visit, I'm now
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seeing how that foundation is being
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built out. built out in u agriculture uh
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with profiles of farmers to understand
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uh what they need and give them advice.
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uh built out with health records uh so
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that we can help people not only with
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infectious diseases but uh the challenge
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that's coming in the future with the
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growth of the non-communicable diseases
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being a huge thing and u that digital
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public infrastructure will help us uh
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with these uh climate uh problems.
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I was in Odisha uh yesterday and and
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what they showed is that they've
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registered the farmers and registered
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what type of crops they grow and what
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land they own. They literally have a
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control center. You know, when you walk
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in, you think, "Wow, this is
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agriculture." But, you know, you've got
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a command center and maps and people
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doing queries and sending out messages.
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And so that all starts, you know, with
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an ADAR identity, listing those farmers,
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uh, getting the information, making sure
