Google Keen To Help PM Modi's "Digital India" Initiative

By siliconindia | Wednesday, 07 January 2015, 11:53 Hrs

BENGALURU: When Naarendra Modi took over the responsibilities after taking oath as Indian Prime Minister, lot of bars and hopes rose believing in his capabilities and an eye for transformations. As a Prime Minister he initiated many worthy programs that can change and transform the common Indian people and India as well.

One such initiative was Digital India program stationed to digitize India as a whole and give people exposure to the new technological world as Modi himself is an avid user of all social media platforms and gadgets.

Digital India is an initiative of the Indian Government proposed by PM Narendra Modi to make India technologically active and get along the world matching the feat. This initiative aims to reduce paper work as well and connect rural Indian areas under high speed internet networks and increase the internet literacy among all the citizens equally, with deadline of achieving the goal by 2018, at an initial cost of 1,13,000 crores. The program would include broadband highways, public internet access and electronic delivery of services such as healthcare, education and entertainment.

In response to the Digital India initiative the world applauded the idea as fresh and exciting. The world was in full support to the PM’s initiative and tech giants like Microsoft, Facebook and Google extended their hand too.

With recent development being made towards the ongoing Digital India initiative, Google has extend its help towards it and is willingly ready to help in any way India seeks.

Google’s Chief Internet Evangelist Vinton G. Cerf was present in a seminar organized by FICCI in New Delhi and speaking about India’s Digital India initiative, and asked about any suggestion on it, he said to the reporters present, "I don't need to prescribe anything, the reason for this is they are already building the network to extend it out to the villages. And my impression after two days discussions is you (the government) already have a well laid out plan. Now you have to execute. The passion is clearly there, the energy is clearly there." As reported by IANS.

He also added that he met Communications and IT Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad as well as some officials of the department of electronics and IT and they convinced to make this initiative take shape and happen. "Basically we said Google is interested in being helpful. We have some ideas [that] we shared with them. It is very clear that private sector is going to play a major role in making this happen," he added.

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