Google to invest more in India, set up new campus in Hyderabad.

Google will invest more in India, step up hiring, build a new campus and provide affordable Internet access to millions in a nation that is US-based firm's most important untapped market for adding users.

The firm's India-born chief executive Sunder Pichai, on his first official visit to India since taking the top job in August, announced plans to provide Internet connectivity to 100 railway stations across the country by next year.

Describing India as among its most important market, Pichai said Google will set up a new campus in Hyderabad and invest both in engineering and business development in India as well as work to increase internet access and develop products that are lighter and faster.

'We will build new campus, ramp up engineering presence in Hyderabad to make products for India; and increase hiring in Bengaluru,' he said.

Pichai added that the company will power 100 railway stations across the country with WiFi by December 2016 as part of its partnership with RailTel.

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