To assure the higher involvement of local languages, Minister of Electronics and Information Technology Ravi Shankar Prasad met Whatsapp's co-founder, Brian Acton. The meeting held on Friday, in which both Brian and Ravi Shankar had crucial discussions.

Prasad after the meeting said, "I conveyed to him as to how programs like Digital India are changing the face of India and making Indians technologically empowered and creating new opportunities. He deeply appreciated all this and assured of more involvement of local language.”

For the involvement of Digital India project, Acton replied, "India is a very important country to us, and we’re proud to have 200 million people who use WhatsApp to connect with their friends, family, and communities. We build every WhatsApp feature to be simple, reliable, and secure, and this vision is in line with what Digital India promises to achieve.” 

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