Reliance Industries Chairman Mukesh Ambani today announced Rs 100,000 crore investment across businesses in the next 12-18 months and said India was on the path to become the world’s fastest growing economy.

The investments will be in expanding petrochemical production capacity as well as in launch the much-awaited 4G broadband services while contributing to Make in India and Digital India initiatives.

Ambani, the world’s richest energy billionaire, speaking at the 7th Vibrant Gujarat Summit here, said Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s clarion call for boosting domestic manufacturing and job creation through Make in India campaign and Digital India initiative “have energised India and its enterprises”.

“We will invest over Rs 100,000 crore in the next 12-18 months in contributing to the Make-In-India and Digital India initiatives,” he said at the Summit inauguration function that was attended by Modi as well as top captains of industry and world leaders.

 


Ambani said he has attended all Vibrant Gujarat Summits and called Modi “a world leader the India is very proud of”.

Gujarat, he said, leads the country in achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) target.

“Reliance has been an inseparable part of Gujarat’s success story. Over the last three decades we have invested again and again to convert a business vision into a reality,” he said, calling upon fellow industrialists to follow the firm’s example.

Stating that Reliance was determined to give back to Gujarat more and more, he said, “All of us will have to work in the spirit of partnership”.