Google Invests 10 Billion Dollars on Digital India

Google’s CEO Sundar Pichai has announced in Google for India 2020 Virtual Meet that Google will be investing Rs. 75,000 Crore (approximately10 Billion Dollars) in various online platforms supporting India in the plan “Digital India.”

The various sections include online native businesses, social impact projects, health, education, and agriculture. In this COVID situation, every business medium is digitizing and Google has stepped up to help in this process of making India digital. The fund will also be used to support the startups and tech companies which had worse effects due to the lockdown. 

According to a recent report by Datalabs by Inc42, there is an average of 22 percent layoffs in startups during this lockdown whereas there have been mass layoffs in companies like Ola. In this situation, this investment would be a huge advancement for the struggling ventures.

Besides, Google has also made a tie-up with the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) to help teachers teach their students via Google Classroom, Google meet, and various other Google applications. Google has also funded 1 Million dollars for Kaivalya Education Foundation to train around 700,000 teachers from low-income communities to educate through virtual teaching 

“I spoke about the new work culture that is emerging in the times of Covid-19. We discussed the challenges the global pandemic has brought to areas such as sports. We also talked about the importance of data security and cyber safety. I was delighted to know more about the efforts of Google in several sectors, be it in education, learning, Digital India, furthering digital payments, and more,” said Prime Minister, Narendra Modi in his Twitter handle.

For which Sundar Pichai has replied, “Thank you for your time, PM @narendramodi – very optimistic about your vision for Digital India and excited to continue our work towards it. Later today we’ll share our next steps on that journey at #GoogleForIndia.”