India Fastest Growing Start-Up in The World, Says Google’s Sundar Pichai

However, the PM did not give a time-frame for implementation.

The best part? This service will be completely free at first.

Modi also envisaged an aggressive expansion of the National Optical Fibre Network to take broadband to 600,000 villages.

The Indian Ambassador to the US Arun Singh said the Apple CEO was “positive” about this, though he appeared more keen on the developing the app ecosystem for iOS out of India thanks to its design base.

Just like I did years ago, thousands of young Indians walk through Chennai Central every day, eager to learn, to explore and to seek opportunity.

He appreciated and encouraged Google to develop Apps which could benefit the common man as he participated in Hackathon under which its employees sat for 15 hours straight to devise such Apps for use in India. He will be in the USA till September 29.

Driving technology forward would really improve people’s lives in India and all around the world, Pichai said.

There is a hunger in India to have more information and being able to connect, Google CEO Sunder Pichai has said as he promised to deliver high-speed internet at 500 railway stations in the country.

At Googleplex, Modi also witnessed the start of a 15-hour hackathon or a marathon software coding session with some 150 Indian programmers looking to produce software and applications relevant to India for Modi’s Digital India and Skill India missions.

During a wide-ranging discussion Sunday morning with Zuckerberg at Facebook’s Menlo Park headquarters, Modi discussed larger efforts to bolster India’s economy, particularly through the Internet. “More importantly, he knows that technology is the enabler that drives massive change, the kind that India needs”, Mr Pichai said, speaking about the prime minister who was on the stage. “It is not just about being online, but what you do online”, he said, citing the case of Nisha Madhulika who creates YouTube videos of vegetarian recipes.

Google’s main concern is getting people online, obviously due to the fact that most of their profits come from internet users; and hopefully because they want to help out, too.