Sundar Pichai kicks-off #GoogleForIndia event, shares vision with Indian users

Google CEO Sundar Pichai wants to take internet to every nook and corner of India and announced that the rural internet program will move from pilot to full scale programme.

While delivering a keynote address during #GoogleForIndia event in New Delhi, Pichai said, “We want to get Indians connected to internet and for this, we will take three-pronged approach.”

“We really want to invest more in India. This country gave us so much, we hope to give much more to India in the coming months. Google will help women from 3,00,000 villages across India get online in three years,” said Pichai.

The Google CEO said they will start from giving access to people and provide them with information that they need. “Thirdly, we will give them the power to add their voice,” said Pichai.

Pichai plans the development over three years.

Meanwhile, Pichai pointed out that the India keyboard helps type in 11 languages.

Pichai is not expected to make any big ticket announcements or launches in his maiden visit to India after assuming the top post at Google.

He will be meeting Google executives, media, developers, entrepreneurs and marketers.

The Google CEO will also meet resident Pranab Mukherjee, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley and Communications Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad.

Pichai will meet students of Shri Ram College of Commerce for a chat session.

Indian-origin Pichai was born in Chennai in 1972 and pursued his PhD at Stanford University after attending IIT-Kharagpur .

His last visit to India was in September 2014 when Pichai launched Android One.