Through the ‘India Get Your Business Online’ campaign Google India has introduced an initiative to make Chandni Chowk market of old Delhi easily accessible to users worldwide. As part of this project, Google India & HostGator went to each shop in Chandni Chowk and built over 2,500 free websites for businesses operating from the market.
To creating these websites for businesses, Google India also launched a common website www.chandnichowknowonline.in, which provides an easy to navigate directory of all businesses from Chandni Chowk that now have a website. This initiative was launched by the Union Minister of Communications & IT, Kapil Sibal.
Kapil Sibal, Union Minister of Communications & IT, said, “Internet is becoming an engine of economic growth and is expected to contribute over USD 100 billion (INR 5 lakh crore) by 2015 to India’s GDP.”
Rajan Anandan, VP & Managing Director, Sales & Operations, Google India, said, “For a business, having a website today is as important as having a mobile phone. And as part of our commitment to build over 500,000 free websites for small and medium businesses in India - we’re thrilled to share that we have now created over 150,000 websites for small and medium businesses across 7,850 cities in India within a year.”
Pradeep Jain, Spokesperson of the Kinari Bazaar Gota Zari Association of Chandni Chowk said, “Chandni Chowk is a hub of small and medium businesses in north India with over 5,000 businesses that includes suppliers, exporters and wholesalers of all kind of products – but very few of these businesses had invested in a website.”
