NEW DELHI, SEPT 14: The Gandhi Institute will receive a US $5 million grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to support the Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan's Free Job-oriented Campaign Training Programme for the benefit of educated, unemployed youth under its Gandhi Institute of Computer Education & Information Technology, headquartered in Mumbai.``Bhavan's initiative to promote fre computer education comes at a time when computer skills are becoming a basic qualification for jobs in India,'' Murli Deora, vice-chairman of the Gandhi Institute, said.``The support of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation underlines Mr. Gates' satisfaction at the progress achieved by Bhavan in its pioneering programme,'' he said.Bhavan, recognised, as the world's largest NGO of its kind, also received recently a Natioal Integration Award by the Centre for its sustained efforts in uniting the country as one culturally.
