Google commits $10-billion investment to expedite digitisation in India

Separately, Pichai also interacted with Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday through videoconferencing.

Google will invest close to $10 billion (around Rs 75,000 crore) in India over the next five to seven years through a “Google for India Digitisation Fund”.

Announcing this on Monday at the sixth edition of the company’s “Google for India” event, Sundar Pichai, chief executive officer of Alphabet Inc. and its subsidiary Google, said the firm was committed to empowering small businesses and building products suited to the country’s needs.

“We will do this through a mix of equity investment, partnership, and operational, infrastructure and ecosystem investments,” Pichai said at the event, conducted in collaboration with the Ministry of Electronic and