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Google will build a new campus at Hyderabad in Telengana state and hire more people, company chief executive Sundar Pichai said . Google was working towards including as many people as possible in the use of internet in India, and added the company will develop products in India that have global usage. They have decided to provide Wi-Fi at 400 railway stations in association with RailTel. The first 100 stations will come online by 2016-end. Mumbai Central station will be online by early January. India`s Communications Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said Google has reached in-principle agreement with the Indian government for its research and development project, Loon.The project is aimed at providing internet connectivity in rural India.Google will partner with the state-owned telecommunications company Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited for the pilot project.Pichai`s announcements were part of the assurance Google held out to Prime Minister Narendra Modi during his visit to the search engine giant`s headquarters at Mountain View, Santa Clara county, California, in September 2015. Pichai said they will ramp up our engineering investments at our Bangalore and Hyderabad facilities. It makes a lot of sense to invest in India as what we build will have global usage.
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