Modi to have Town Hall interaction with Zuckerberg

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit the Facebook headquarters in California on September 27 where he will hold a Town Hall interaction with its CEO Mark Zukerberg, only the second for the young billionaire with a world leader after US President Barack Obama.

Making the announcement on his Facebook page, the Prime Minister invited questions for the Town Hall session. Modi's announcement came after Zuckerberg wrote in his Facebook post: "I'm excited to announce that Prime Minister Narendra Modi of India will be visiting Facebook HQ later this month for a Town Hall Q&A.

"Prime Minister Modi and I will discuss how communities can work together to address social and economic challenges." It is only for the second time that Zukerberg will have a Town Hall with a world leader at Facebook headquarters. The first was with Obama in April 2011, just before his re-election as President.

In that Town Hall, the two had talked about jobs, youth and innovation in the US. Facebook then had roughly over 500 million users globally. Today, it has 1.49 billion users. On August 24, one billion people were on Facebook globally on a single day. The Prime Minister will be on a visit to Ireland and the US from September 23 to 29 during which he will address the UN General Assembly and also visit Google headquarters in the Silicon Valley.

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