“I understand that this is the Hackathon culture and we should be encouraging this in India”, Prime Minister Modi said while interacting with the Google team at its headquarters here.
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India’s technological infrastructure is about to make a huge upgrade as CEO of Google Sundar Pichai announces that the company will be installing wireless networks in train stations scattered across the country. According to Pichai, the project will be enough to provide Wi-Fi connectivity to about 10 million people that pass through train stations every day, even with just the first 100 stations going online.
The initiative, which will be accomplished together with Indian Railways and provider RailTel, was announced today during an event at Google’s Mountain View campus with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
He also pointed out that the length of Indian Railways is twice the distance between Earth and Moon.
PM Modi complimented the employees of Google for working several hours on the computer to find solution to numerous world’s problems.
As the who’s who from the tech world gave a ringing endorsement to the ambitious “Digital India” programme, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said it will announce cloud computing systems from data centres in India next week, calling it a “big milestone”.
Modi said Digital India was born out of conviction that it was possible to rapidly transform the lives of people on margins and touch the lives of the weakest, farthest and the poorest citizen of India as also change the way our nation will live and work.
PM Modi says Wi-Fi will not just be a facility offered in airports but also in railway stations.
“The Prime Minister (in his meeting with Cook) said he would like Apple to start manufacturing in India”. Khagaul near Patna is where the great Indian astronomer Aryabhatta had an observatory.
Later, Modi participated in a hackathon at Google.
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Another project that was shown to Modi was Project Iris, smart lens that measure glucose levels.
