Sundar Pichai visits India: 10 takeaways from the Google event

Zee Media Bureau

New Delhi: After taking over the helm of leading Internet search giant Google as its CEO, Sundar Pichai is in India for his maiden visit.

In the course of his two-day visit, Pichai will also meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi and President Pranab Mukherjee, with whom a state dinner has also been scheduled for tomorrow. He will also address students at Shri Ram College of Commerce tomorrow.

Pichai on Wednesday delivered the keynote address at a Google for India event, outlining the company's plans for India.

Herer are ten takeaways from his address.

1. 100 railway stations to have wi-fi by December 2016 in partnership with Railtel.

2. Mumbai Central to go live by January.

3. Google will build new campus, ramp up engineering presence in Hyderabad to make products for India

4. Google will up hiring in Bengaluru.

5. Google will help women from three lakh villages across India to get online in three years.

6. The company is expanding bicycle for women programme nationally.

7. Pichai laid out three-step approach to promote Internet in India -- better access to the full Internet, make its product better to suit Indian market and make it easier for Indians to build solution on its platform like Android and Chrome to resolve local
problems.

8. In the first quarter of 2016, Google will release a feature called 'Tap to Translate' that allows the instant translation of any text on the Android phones.

9. With Tap to Translate you can copy text anywhere on your Android phone and instantly get the translation, right then and there, without ever leaving the app.

10. Google announced a programme to train two million new Android developers over the next three years by working closely with more than 30 universities across country in partnership with National Skill Development Corporation.