Google on Friday announced a new program called -- "Solve for India". With this program, Google aims to expand and energise the start-up ecosystem and inspire the budding entrepreneurs to "Solve for India" and its underserved users need, says the company itself. Befitting the name of the program -- "Solve in India", Google is working on solving problems that majority of the Indians have been facing for ages together.

For instance, Jaipur based Nishant Patni introduced an app called -- Hello English which helped nearly 95 lakh Indian natives to learn spoken English. On the other hand, in another instance, a Chennai-based Android developer, Natarajan Raman developed a Tamil app called -- kuzhandai nalam (Child health) to help parents learn about the children's health issues in regional languages. "These are just a few examples of how new breed of entrepreneurs and developers are building solutions to solve the real problems in India," says Google.

With improved connectivity and the rapidly growing Internet user base, Internet today provides an opportunity to everyone to pursue their passion and create solutions to solve for the real problems of India. Google is going to offer the same with the "Solve in India" program. Here are the key highlight of the program.

1. "Solve for India" program is set to inspire the new wave of entrepreneurs and startups in emerging cities like Pune, Jaipur, Hyderabad, Kolkata, Kochi, Indore, Nagpur, Nashik, Madurai, Kanpur, and Chennai.

2. The program will provide a platform for developers, entrepreneurs in tier 2 cities to hear from experts and learn about the latest Google technologies and get access to direct mentoring and support from Google.

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3. Solve for India program will allow entrepreneurs get an opportunity to directly get lessons from Google engineers on -- who will share product usage insights, how to develop mobile first solutions with strong offline and language capabilities and help them to build solutions across areas like Agri-tech, Healthcare, Transportation, Education, Sanitation and more.

4. Developers and Entrepreneurs will be able to gain from a variety of Google's program starting from Google Launchpad mentoring program which will help them to build, scale and accelerate early stage product ideas into category leaders. Sign-up for the fourth batch of Launchpad accelerator program that provides six month mentorship program covering all aspect of product design, business models, technology support to build for scale and go to market strategies along with $50,000 equity free investments.

5. For startups who're looking to build scalable solutions, Google will provide over $20,000 of cloud credits under this program.

5. Under this program, developers can also look forward to build on their skills and learn from experts on latest in Android, Firebase, Machine learning, Cloud APIs, Progressive Web Apps and Indian Language Translation solutions, says Google.

"Majority of India's Internet users are Indian language users, and over 80 per cent of them access the Internet from their mobile phones. But the current Indian startup ecosystem is building products for English speaking audience and caters only to 15 per cent of the population. There's growing number of entrepreneurs in smaller Indian cities who are focusing on building solutions that caters to the real needs of India. Through this initiative we want to bring the best of Google under one program and join forces with them to help create solutions that serve the needs of a billion Indians," says Karthik Padmanabhan, Program Manager Lead for Google India.