WEST BENGAL IS BECOMING BEST BENGAL - MUKESH AMBANI

"Didi, under your leadership, Bengal is becoming the best Bengal. These were the punch line statement of appreciation by Mukesh Ambani who was speaking at the Bengal Global Business Summit. Mr. Ambani conveyed gratitude towards the commitment and support from the government of West Bengal towards creating a friendly atmosphere for corporate companies to invest more and more in West 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.

He also revealed 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.

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.

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.