“In our attempt to provide Internet
access to people, we have decided to provide Wi-Fi in 400 railway
stations with RailTel. The 100 stations will come online by 2016 end.
Mumbai Central station will be online by January,” Pichai said at an
event here.
This was also a part of the assurance
which Google gave to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, when he visited the
search engine giant’s headquarters at Mountain View, Santa Clara County
in California in September this year.
Regarding the company’s expansion plans
in India, he said: “We will ramp up our engineering investments at our
Bangalore and Hyderabad facilities.”
“We will also build a huge new campus in
Hyderabad,” he said, but did not disclose the amount of investment. The
company now has 1500 employees in India.
“This country has given me and Google so
much and I just hope we can give much more to the country,” he said,
adding: “A lot of what today is about is how we build products for the
next billion Indian users, yet to come online.”
