Gates sees technology aiding India

NEW DELHI, July 24 (UPI) -- Microsoft founder Bill Gates says the key to solving many of India's healthcare and education problems lies with technology.

In a visit to the country, Gates said the creation of a national identity database in India would help track infants who need immunizations and allow all Indians to have bank accounts, the Wall Street Journal reported Friday.

Gates told a media briefing in New Delhi that as computers and cell phones can be used to modernize access to public services in rural parts of India as they become more user-friendly.

For example, he said computers could be used to deliver video lectures to villages or allow doctors to examine patients remotely.

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has announced it is increasing its funding to reduce the spread of human immunodeficiency virus in India to $338 million.