India prime minister Narendra Modi tours Silicon Valley – in pictures

Narendra Modi at the Digital India dinner held at Fairmont Hotel in San Jose on Saturday, September 26, 2015. The event was attended by Silicon Valley CEOs including Sundar Pichai of Google, Satya Nadella of Microsoft, John Chambers of Cisco and Shantanu Narayan of Adobe. Shweta Gulati via AP

Narendra Modi speaks about India's digital initiatives at the Google campus in Mountain View, California on September 27, 2015. Elijah Nouvelage / Reuters

Narendra Modi, centre, walks the hallways of Google headquarters alongside Google executive Sundar Pichai, right, on Sunday, September 27, 2015, in Mountain View, California. After meeting with Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg at Facebook headquarters, Mr Modi scheduled meetings with the CEOs of Apple and Google during his whirlwind tour of Silicon Valley. Marcio Jose Sanchez / AP Photo

Narendra Modi addresses the crowd during a community reception at SAP Center in San Jose, California on September 27, 2015. Stephen Lam / Reuters

Narendra Modi speaks during a town hall meeting at Facebook headquarters in Menlo Park, California, US, on Sunday, September 27, 2015. David Paul Morris/Bloomberg

Attendees use mobile phones to take photographs of Narendra Modi, India's prime minister and Mark Zuckerberg, chief executive officer of Facebook Inc., as the arrive for a town hall meeting at Facebook headquarters in Menlo Park, California, U.S., on Sunday, Sept. 27, 2015. Prime Minister Modi plans on connecting 600,000 villages across India using fiber optic cable as part of his "dream" to expand the world's largest democracy's economy to $20 trillion. Photographer: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg

Jake Badger

Narendra Modi visited some of the world’s biggest technology companies on the US West Coast as he hoped to bring more investment and jobs to India and promote his Digital India campaign, which seeks to connect thousands more villages to the internet.

Updated: September 28, 2015, 12:00 AM