Google internet bus in Chandigarh

The Google’s internet bus, which aims at educating people across India about the internet, entered Chandigarh today. After Chandigarh the bus would move across Punjab and Haryana where it plans to cover 15 towns by May 27.

Google internet bus is part of Google internet bus project which is aimed towards educating people about the internet and how it may be beneficial to their lives, by taking the internet experience to them in their preferred language. Product Manager, Google India Jagjit Chawla revealed the bus would showcase informative content both in English and Punjabi and would also showcase how internet services could be used by mobile phone owners to make their everyday life simple.

In Punjab and Haryana, Google has joined hands with NIIT™, to provide an hour-long free internet training to the visitors of the internet bus. The bus has traversed across 70 locations in six states including Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan. Commenting on the experience of internet bus project across six states, Chawla said the project had reinforced their belief that awareness was the key challenge in the growth of the internet in India.

With population of over 1 billion, the internet penetration was just around 7 per cent in India he said adding, one of the major reasons for low internet penetration in India was the absence of content in local language.

Out of the 70 million internet users only 13 per cent prefer to use internet in English and remaining 87 per cent wanted to use internet in their local language.