USAID chief to visit India this week

August 24, 2015 21:51

USAID chief Alfonso Lenhardt is visiting India this week to attend a global conference of health ministers and practitioners on child and maternal deaths and launch the premiere of a film on girl's education.

Kicking off his India travel from Mumbai, the acting administrator of US Agency for International Development will launch the premiere of the film on girl's education, "Girl Rising: Woh Padhegi, Woh Udegi", and tour a Tata lab as part of the agency's focus on innovation, an official statement said today.

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