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Google Philanthropy in India ???

I saw this article Google: Doing Good in India in Business Week:

The search engine is helping to overcome the scourge of blindness in India, and its philanthropy may presage a growing business presence.

The Aravind Eye Hospital performs 240,000 eye surgeries a year, making it the largest hospital of its kind in the world. Management guru C.K. Prahalad hailed it as a "gem at the bottom of the pyramid" in one of his management books. Brilliant, who joined Google in February, 2006, is a patron of the hospital and is also a close friend of Aravind's founder, Dr. Govindappa Venkataswamy.

Well, I don't know if I have to applaud the efforts of Google philanthropy division or just wonder why they don’t invest all those millions and billions in promoting education. I totally understand that Government of India must be responsible for providing proper education and education policies. Today India has become the back office of the world and increasingly becoming a destination of worlds research, is mainly due to the availability of few millions of highly educated Indians. There are still hundreds of millions of Indians who don’t have access to proper primary education, let alone quality education. What if these Googles of the world plough their philanthropy millions in promoting quality primary education? The education landscape will start transforming rapidly and may be tens of millions of Indians will become more productive and resourceful to the world.

Google think about it........., you may be instrumental in building Literacy Everywhere World.