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Beginning with 100 stations in the initial phase of the project by end-2016 Prime Minister Narendra Modi shakes hands with Sundar Pichai CEO Google in Mountain View, California. Photo: PTI Internet giant Google has announced it will help Indian Railways set up Wi-Fi broadband services at 400 railway stations in India over the next few years beginning with 100 stations in the initial phase of the project by end-2016. “Even with just the first 100 stations online, this project will make Wi-Fi available for more than 10 million people who pass through every day. This will rank it as the largest public Wi-Fi project in India, and among the largest in the world, by number of potential users,” Google CEO Sundar Pichai said in a blog. He added the company announced its plan on the occasion of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to the US in line with the Digital India initiative to bring one billion Indians, who still lack internet connectivity, online. Around 100 milli