July 13, 2020: Google CEO Sundar Pichai has announced a $10 billion digitization fund for India's digital economy.
Pichai's announcement came after his meeting with Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday where he discussed issues such as leveraging the power of technology to transform the lives of India's farmers and youth.
"Today at #GoogleForIndia we announced a new $10B digitization fund to help accelerate India’s digital economy. We’re proud to support PM @narendramodi ’s vision for Digital India - many thanks to Minister @rsprasad & Minister @DrRPNishank for joining us," Sundar Pichai tweeted.
"This morning, had an extremely fruitful interaction with Sundar Pichai. We spoke on a wide range of subjects, particularly leveraging the power of technology to transform the lives of India's farmers, youngsters and entrepreneurs," Prime Minister Narendra Modi also wrote on Twitter.
