Reliance Jio to invest Rs 10,000 crore in UP; to create 1 lakh job opportunities: Mukesh Ambani

Reliance JioInfocomm, the 4G entrant will invest another Rs 10,000 crore in Uttar Pradesh over the next three years, having already invested over Rs 20,000 crore to build the digital infrastructure, Reliance Industries chairman MukeshAmbani said on Wednesday. The telco is also aiming to create over one lakh sustainable livelihood opportunities in the state in coming years.

“I have come to Lucknow to assure the Respected Prime Minister and the Honourable Chief Minister that Jio’s Digital Revolution is here to make the maximum contribution to UP’s development revolution,” Ambani said during his speech at UP Investors’ Summit. “Today I am happy to inform this audience that Jio is one of the largest investors in Uttar Pradesh with investments of over Rs 20,000 crore.

Ambani said that UP, which India’s most populous State, can become the country’s most prosperous state by embracing the Prime Minister’s Digital India Mission. “Reliance has built a world-class digital Infrastructure all over India, including in UP, in less than two years…Jio is providing the highest quality data at the lowest price in the world to over 2 crore citizens of Uttar Pradesh,” he said.

He said that Reliance has rebuilt the next-generation digital communication services to benefit farmers, small, medium and large business, hospitals, schools, colleges, and universities. “Moreover, Jio will also assist the administration from rajdhani Lucknow to the smallest gram panchayat. We are doing this because Jio is not merely another business for Reliance,” he further added.

“We believe that the ultimate goal of all business is: SARVE BHAVANTU SUKHINAHA…SARVE SANTU NIRAAMAYAA!,” he said.

Talking about the JioPhone, Ambani said that Reliance has virtually made the device free because it wants even the poorest Indian to become digitally empowered. “Therefore, I am happy to announce that Jio will make available over two crore JioPhones in UP within the next two months on a priority basis,” he said, adding that Jio has already created over 40,000 direct and indirect jobs in UP.

Along with other businesses of Reliance such as Retail, Polyester and Petroleum, Jio will create over one lakh sustainable livelihood opportunities in the state in the coming years, he added. “Jio will establish a Centre for the Fourth Industrial Revolution within the campus of a reputed university in Uttar Pradesh.”