Google CEO Sundar Pichai visited India today to host Google For India event. After heading over the prestigious position as a Chief Executive at the tech giant company Google, this is the first overseas trip of the India-born Sundar Pichai to India. Sundar Pichai has visited India and in the course of his two-day visit, Pichai will meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi and President Pranab Mukherjee. Also, a state dinner has also been scheduled for tomorrow in Sundar Pichai’s Programmes along with the President and Prime Minister of India. He will be addressing students at Shri Ram College of Commerce that will be held tomorrow at Delhi University.

On his first day visit, Sundar Pichai delivered the keynote address at a Google for India event, outlining the company’s plans for India. Pichai, along with other topmost executives from Google and YouTube, spoke about the company’s plans for India. Here are the top 10 key points highlighted by Sundar Pichai at ‘Google For India’ Event.

1. Free Wi-Fi to 100 Railway Stations in India by 2016-End

The search engine giant, Google will bring free Wi-Fi connectivity to 100 railway stations all over the country by the end of 2016. The telecom segment of the Indian Railway, RailTel, had endorsed an agreement with the subsidiary of Google India to implement Wi-Fi facilities at 400 stations across the country. Mumbai Central station will be the first station to get free Wi-Fi by January.

2. Google Plans at Hiring People

The Indian-born CEO said plans of the company at the Google For India event wherein he highlighted that Google is looking at hiring people for Bangalore and Hyderabad. Pichai also said that we will also build a large new campus in Hyderabad to strengthen capabilities.

3. Internet for All

Sundar Pichai emphasised on the significance of internet connectivity during the Google for India event. Pichai said that it is crucial to expanding the scope of internet across the country. Stressing the point, he said, “mobile internet can be a game changer.”

The Indian-born CEO said, “Our focus is on bringing internet access to everyone, making sure our products are working for them in a meaningful way and then ensure our platform allows them to add their voice to the internet.” Google’s rural internet programme will move from pilot to full-scale programme in 300,000 villages in India.

4. Google Builds New Campus in Hyderabad

At the Google for India event, Pichai announced that Google is planning to build a huge new campus in Hyderabad to build capabilities.

5. Google Will Bring ‘Project Loon’ to India Soon

The tech giant Google plans to provide internet Connectivity via “Project Loon” which means providing internet connectivity using balloons. At the event, Pichai said, “Project Loon will launch balloons in the sky to help reach out to rural areas.” Embellishing the same, Google Vice President (Access Strategy and Emerging Markets) Marian Croak said the company is “passionate” about building and deploying new Internet infrastructure around the world.

“One of the technologies that we have in our portfolio is Project Loon. It’s a project that we are working on with local telcos all across the world. “And we are testing these high altitude balloons which literally act as almost like floating cell towers… To connect people in hard to reach regions that are scarcely populated and we are working to hopefully bring Project Loon to India in rural communities that have very few people connected to the Internet,” she said.

Google has already experimented 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.

6. Brings ‘Tap to Translate’ For Android Devices

Apart from free Wi-Fi networks, Sundar Pichai also shared other information that, in the first quarter of 2016, Google will release a feature called ‘Tap to Translate’ that lets the users translate any text instantly right then and there without having to leave the app on the Android phones.

“With Tap to Translate, you can copy text anywhere on your Android phone and instantly get the translation, right then and there, without ever leaving the app,” Google’s Vice President for Next Billion initiative Caesar Sengupta said.

7. Likely to Train 2 Million Developers in India

Pichai also said that the company is partnering with the National Skill Development Council to train 2 million developers in India. As part of encouraging the development of technological solution associated with social needs, Google announced a programme to train two million new Android developers over the next three years by operating closely with more than 30 universities all over the country in partnership with National Skill Development Corporation.

8. Google to Expand ‘Bicycle for Women’ Programme Nation-wide

India-born CEO, Pichai said as part of Google’s efforts to encourage women to get online, the tech giant is expanding ‘bicycle for women’ programme nationally. The company will help women from 3 lakh villages across India to get online in three years.

9.  Android Users in India to Exceed US by 2016

US-based Google is optimistic on the Indian market, which it described among its most significant. It is expecting that by the year 2016, there will be more number of Android users in India than those in US. The count of Android users in India will exceed the Android users in the US.

10. Thank you, India

“This country has given me and Google so much and I just hope we can give much more to the country.” Sundar Pichai also added, “A lot of what today is about is how we build products for the next billion Indian users, yet to come online.”

Pichai also said that Google is also working on increasing the number of local languages available on its virtual keyboard to target non-English speakers. These are the key takeaways from what the Google CEO, Sundar Pichai said at today’s Google for India event.