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| By December next year, 100 railway stations in India will be getting Wi-Fi connectivity and Mumbai Central will be the first station to get this facility. |
In a Google India event which was held recently in New Delhi, Google CEO Sundar Pichai took the stage to emphasize the search engine giant's initiatives to boost its penetration into rural parts of India and he said that these announcements were made in the course of last few months. With an expansion of its new campus in Hyderabad, Google will be recruiting more Indians for business development too.
The search engine giant also mentioned two new projects to make its presence in India's rural and semi-urban areas.
Project Loon: This is the most anticipated project in which internet-beaming balloons will be used to provide internet connectivity in villages and small towns without any cables or an optic fibre grid. Though project loon ran into regulatory issues in India, Google's vision towards connecting rural India to the Internet seems to be impregnable.
“We are implementing two separate initiatives in India to make every person use the internet. To bring more rural women online, we run a programme named ‘Internet Sathi’ for which we partner Intel and Tata Trust to educate women about the basic usage of internet and benefits of using the internet to their doorstep. For this programme, a specially designed cycles with the attached computer equipment has been used to reach out people. This project is running as a pilot in 1,000 villages in three states,” Pichai said.
Helping Women Get Online is the another initiative by the Mountain View-based company to help more women get online. “The pilot project is now going national where we are aiming to get women online in 300,000 villages in three years which are half of Indian villages,” added Pichai.
Apart from these initiatives, the tech-giant will be providing free Wi-Fi at railway stations. By December next year, 100 railway stations in India will be getting Wi-Fi connectivity and Mumbai Central will be the first station to get this facility.
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The search engine giant also mentioned two new projects to make its presence in India's rural and semi-urban areas.
Project Loon: This is the most anticipated project in which internet-beaming balloons will be used to provide internet connectivity in villages and small towns without any cables or an optic fibre grid. Though project loon ran into regulatory issues in India, Google's vision towards connecting rural India to the Internet seems to be impregnable.
“We are implementing two separate initiatives in India to make every person use the internet. To bring more rural women online, we run a programme named ‘Internet Sathi’ for which we partner Intel and Tata Trust to educate women about the basic usage of internet and benefits of using the internet to their doorstep. For this programme, a specially designed cycles with the attached computer equipment has been used to reach out people. This project is running as a pilot in 1,000 villages in three states,” Pichai said.
Helping Women Get Online is the another initiative by the Mountain View-based company to help more women get online. “The pilot project is now going national where we are aiming to get women online in 300,000 villages in three years which are half of Indian villages,” added Pichai.
Apart from these initiatives, the tech-giant will be providing free Wi-Fi at railway stations. By December next year, 100 railway stations in India will be getting Wi-Fi connectivity and Mumbai Central will be the first station to get this facility.
Author's Bio:
Ragav is a writer who loves to share information that is useful for the people. He also shares his views on Indian real estate through sites like Indiaproperty.com
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