* Google will bring internet connectivity to 100 railway stations across the country by next year. The telecom wing of the Indian Railway, RailTel, had signed an agreement with the subsidiary of Google India to provide Wi-Fi facilities at 400 stations across the country. Mumbai Central station will be the first station to get Wi-Fi by January.
* Google is looking at hiring people for Bangalore and Hyderabad.
* Google will also build huge new campus in Hyderabad to build capabilities.
* The company is also partnering with the National Skill Development Council to train 2 million developers in India.
* YouTube is now offline, Google Maps is offline. Sundar Pichai is talking about making next billion people access Internet with limited connectivity
* Internet will become even more affordable to all these new users and Google will make internet more accessible to for the next billion Indians
* Internet for all. Google's rural internet programme will move from pilot to full scale programme in 300,000 villages in India.
* Google to expand 'bicycle for women' programme nationally. Pichai said as part of Google's efforts to help women get online, the company is expanding 'bicycle for women' programme nationally. The company will help women from 3 lakh villages across India to get online in three years.
* Project Loon coming to India
Through its Project Loon, online search giant plans to provide internet connectivity using balloons. It has already tested this technology in New Zealand, California (the US) and Brazil. As per Google, each balloon can provide connectivity to a ground area about 40km in diameter using a wireless communications technology called LTE or 4G.
* Android users in India to surpass those in US by 2016. US-based Google is bullish on the Indian market, which it called among its most important.
* Pichai: Thank you 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."
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