English is the lingua-franca for globalization. If India has to clock 9% annual growth in its GDP, English needs to be central in education of Gen YRI. There will be an increasing demand for multi-lingual speakers by corporate India according to Times of India article “English for Progress”.
Facebook is planning on having a version in Hindi, Punjabi, Bengali, Telugu, Tamil and Malayalam. Right now Facebook has 200 million users. By including more Indian languages they expect to bring in more users.
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