Google CEO Sundar Pichai visits Indian Embassy in US to discuss tech giant’s commitment to India

Google has made substantial investments in India, especially in the push towards digitisation in the nation. Google is also one of the major platforms in the digital payments sector in the country. The tech giant has partnered with Reliance Jio Infocomm to produce the Jio 4G Mobile Phone, which will be one of the cheapest 4G enabled smartphones in the country, and announced an investment of $4.5 billion in Jio Platforms.

Google also invested $1 billion in Bharti Airtel earlier in the year, buying a 1.28 percent stake in the company for $700 million and a $300 million multi-year commercial contract. The investment is part of Google’s bigger Digitization Fund for India, which was announced in 2020 and promised investments to the tune of $10 billion for digitisation efforts over the next seven years.

The company has also been working together with the Indian government on the Digital India Program and the National Digital Literacy Mission. With such multi-level partnerships, it isn’t hard to see why Ambassador Sandhu called Google an important partner in India’s digital evolution, something that the government considers a priority.