December 25, 2025 10:53 pm (IST)
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Satya Nadella announces Microsoft's plans to take technology to 500,000 villages in India
San Jose, Sept 27 (IBNS): Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella at the Silicon Valley event in San Jose shared a "haunting image" from his childhood in Andhra Pradesh to illustrate how digital India can bring changes in lives.
"I saw two lean people who lay in overturned charpoys with two transistor radios. They were schoolteachers who decided to give up teaching. I think about those people and what they could have achieved today," said the Microsoft CEO.
He, however, said India has come a long way from those days.
"I visited a rural school that day and I went to one of the classrooms...The students were engaged in a skype classroom session with another school. To my very pleasant surprise, this other school happened to be in rural India," he said.
"We believe low cost broadband connectivity coupled with the scale of cloud computing and the intelligence that can be harnessed from data can help drive creativity, efficiency and productivity across governments and businesses of all size," he said.
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