Reliance Jio owner Mukesh Ambani said on
Tuesday that Jio network will cover 100 per cent of West Bengal's population by
December 2018, thus will turn itself into the 4G data pulse of new digitally
superior West Bengal. Mukesh revealed that Reliance Industries is also committed
over Rs 5,000 crore of investments in the state for non-Jio businesses in the
next three years.
Speaking at the Bengal Global Business Summit
here, Ambani said the company will be exploring opportunities for setting up an
electronics manufacturing facility in the state and company is working with multiple
partners to explore setting up next generation electronics manufacturing
facilities to make West Bengal the hub of innovation and hi-tech technologies
for consumer devices such as mobile phones, set-top boxes and other devices.
"Our
current Jio network covers 1,000 towns and nearly 39,000 villages in the state.
Jio will reach 100 per cent of West Bengal's population by December 2018. Every
last village will be covered by 4G digital technology. We are embarking on an
ambitious project of connecting Bengal with optic fibre," he said.
Mukesh also shared his future dreams for West
Bengal in which Jio will be connecting every
education institution and hospital and medical delivery facility in the state
in the next two years by December 2019. "I am happy to announce that with
the support of state government, we will launch this initiative in five districts
of Bengal with immediate effect," he said, adding that it would create
employment and wealth generating opportunities in both rural and urban Bengal. "It
will give birth of digital entrepreneurs in villages and small towns...
kick-start e-commerce and support of agriculture, as well as small and medium
enterprises," he added.
Appreciating the West Bengal government's support
and Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, Ambani said: "Didi, under your
leadership, Bengal is becoming the best Bengal." Ambani revealed that in
business summit - 2015, Reliance Industries committed for an investment of INR 4500
crores, but due to the economic activity friendliness and immense customer
support, it ended up investing INR 15,000 crore, nearly triple that amount, in
the last two years in Bengal.
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