Google to sponsor 130,000 scholarships for tech developers by 2018

Google kicked off the developer training programme last year, says it has so far reached half a million students and developers in the country

In keeping with its effort to train two million developers in India before the end of 2018, Google has partnered with technology learning platforms, Pluralsight and Udacity, to provide scholarships to 130,000 developers and students in the country.

The scholarships will focus on skilling developers in emerging technologies such as mobile and web development, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Virtual and Augmented Reality and Cloud Platforms.

"Since we announced our skilling initiative in India, 210,000 students have completed Google developed courses on Udacity, with 117,000 students completing the course this year. To build on this momentum, this scholarship program, will make