Melinda French Gates uses Paytm to pay at a local store in Delhi's village

American philanthropist, Melinda French Gates, is currently in Delhi for her India trip. Recently, the businesswoman visited a village in Delhi to interact with residents. The 58-year-old on Wednesday visited Garhi village in Delhi where she chit-chatted with India Post Payments Bank customers and elderly women pensioners.

During her visit, the philanthropist witnessed how India's digital public infrastructure enables financial inclusion. While meeting the residents of the village, French also used the digital payment app, Paytm to pay at one of the local shops.

In a video shared by the official Twitter handle of Gates Foundation India, we see French scanning a barcode to pay for her purchases at a small local store. The 58-year-old scanned Paytm's QR code to make her payment.


On Tuesday, Paytm boss Vijay Shekhar Sharma had welcomed all the G20 Summit delegates to India.

"Welcome all #G20 delegates and foreign dignitaries India and experience India's world class digital payment infrastructure, just #PaytmKaro," Sharma tweeted.
Sharma further said that he was "proud" to be part of generation seeing change not just in payments but also in health care, transport, education and governance sector.

"And proud to be part of generation seeing change not just in Payments. From Health Care to Transport, Education to Governance. Proud of my country setting benchmark of public technology infrastructure!
As part of her visit, French has visited several parts of India to interact with people. Recently, French was the Guest of Honour at the 'Women leading Change in Health and Science in India'.

"Government has taken crucial steps like emergency cash transfer through Direct Benefit Transfer which is a great example of gender intentional policy. The government of India has been pushing forward from bottom up to build a gender equal country," said French, expressing hope that the Centre would work in co-ordination to achieve shared goals and improve the aspect of gender equality in the country even further.