New Delhi, Nov 27 (IANS): A day after Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba's commitment to invest more in India, American technology giant Dell expressed its keenness to invest in the country, Communications and IT Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said Thursday.

"President @Dell Inc. Asia Pacific Amit Midha met me and Dell is keen to investment in #India," Prasad in a tweet after meeting Midha, Dell's president Asia Pacific and Japan and chairman, Global Emerging Markets.

The investor perception about India is changing, the minister said.

Prasad later told reporters that the company is interested in electronic manufacturing and they want to expand their existing facility.

"They also want to work on Digital India programme which is now a buzz word across the world. They have said that the programme should also be linked to e-commerce expansion in the country," he added.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi in his Independence Day address to the nation Aug 15 envisaged a Rs.1 lakh crore project to transform the country into a digitally empowered and connected knowledge economy.