Here's everything you need to know about the Google for India 2020 event

search-engine giant, Google hosted sixth annual Google for India 2020 event today. Due to COVID-19 pandemic, Google India event was covered online this year. Google CEO Sundar Pichai delivered an dress at Google event.

Furr, Google for India 2020 event was also attended by Ravi Shankar Pras, Minister of Communications, Electronics and IT, Law & Justice.   event began at 2 pm according to Indian Standard Time. Here are some of top anuncements of Google for India 2020 event:

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Google News:

According to Google CEO Sundar Pichai, Google fund is set to invest 10 billion dollars in India, in next five to seven years. This amounts to Rs. 75,000 crores.

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Google Investment in India:

Google Fund will provide investment to four major areas:

1. Access to information in regional langus.
2. Manufacturing products and services according to country’s needs.
3. Empowering businesses and helping m undergo a digital transformation.
4. Leveraging techlogy and AI for social in areas like health, education, and agriculture.

Education:

Reportedly, Google will invest 1 million dollars in education sector. Kaivalya Education Foundation will be allocated 1 million dollars to train over 7,00,000 teachers. Furr, funds will also be allocated to provide virtual education to students belonging to low-income backgrounds. Google has also anunced a partnership with CBSE board i.e. Central Board of Secondary Education, to work in area of skilled education and training.

This initiative will enable 1 million teachers in approximately 22,000 schools to deliver blended learning i.e. combining classroom training with online training.

Some of Google tools would assist in online training are G-Suite for education, Google Classroom, and YouTube. Google has anunced a partnership with Prasar Bharti. This partnership will produce an edutainment series on Doordarshan, India’s public service brocasting channel.

Or investments:

Google is set to invest in areas like equity investments, partnerships, and operational infrastructure ecosystem industries.

Commenting on existing initiatives:

• A mention of existing Google initiatives was also me during event.
• vants of ePathshala were mentioned by Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank, Minister of Human Resources Development. As per reports, Google will also invest some money in ePathshala portal.
• Nishank also spoke about Google’s investment in startups.
• Caesar Sengupta, le at Payments and Next Billion Users said that about 2 million users utilized Spot platform on Google Play last year.

event mainly catered to initiatives that would help to strengn PM Modi’s Digital India initiative. In his dress, Google CEO Sundar Pichai said that India needed to work hard in order to achieve goal of providing internet services to a billion Indians.

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Promo Im Source: Sundar Pichai's Instagram