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Google CEO Sundar Pichai today briefed about the company's partnership with the Indian Railways and said that 100 railway stations would have Wi-Fi by December 2016.
Pichai said that Mumbai Central would be the first railway station to get Wi-Fi.
Internet major Google and state-run RailTel Corp of India have joined hands to equip 400 railway stations in the country with high speed Wi-Fi networks, making it one of the largest public Wi-Fi projects in the world.
The Wi-Fi project was announced by Pichai after his meeting with Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
Google is also upgrading its Indian maps.
"The user community has helped them map a city like Madurai. It is the map maker here in India that taught Google that the community should be a critical part in other sectors of the world as well," Pichai said.
Offline maps too have been introduced in the country as many still are on a 2G connection.
"Users can download the map when they have connectivity and then use the maps when in a patchy area or an area with no connectivity," he added.
India is in the top five countries that download the map and use them in the offline mode.
