"The new scholarship programme is in tandem with Google's aim to train two million developers in India. "In the last one year, we have engaged over half a million students and developers across India through a variety of programmes and initiatives. Since we announced our skilling initiative in India, 210,000 students have completed Google developed courses on Udacity, with 117,000 students completing the course this year," Florance informed.With Udacity, 1,000 developers will also be selected to receive full Nanodegree scholarships. "Unlike China, India is lagging in innovation but is adopting technologies faster. "With this scholarship programme, students can master web and mobile development skills with the experts from Udacity and Google," added Ishan Gupta, Managing Director-Udacity India.

Source: Economic Times November 23, 2017 12:22 UTC