Assam: Reliance Industries Chairman Mukesh Ambani on Tuesday announced plans to invest ₹50,000 crore in Assam over the next five years, calling the state a “land of growth opportunities.”

Speaking at the Advantage Assam 2.0 summit in Guwahati, attended by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Ambani highlighted five key focus areas for the state, including artificial intelligence and green energy.

“Our first priority is to make Assam Tech-Ready and AI-Ready. For us, Assam’s digital transformation is a noble and patriotic mission. Jio has made Assam not only 2G-mukt but 5G-yukt. We are very grateful for the people of Assam to adopt Jio with their heart. After building world-class connectivity infrastructure, we will now install high-performance computing infrastructure. Reliance will establish an AI-ready Data Center in Assam, which will benefit… Students with AI assisted TEACHERS. Patients with AI assisted DOCTORS. Agriculture will benefit from AI assisted FARMERS. And AI will help Assam’s youth to learn from home and earn from home, he said.

Ambani stated that Reliance’s second priority is to make Assam a hub for clean and green energy. “This will include Nuclear Energy, in line with the Government’s new policy to invite private participation in the nuclear industry. And Reliance will build two world-class hubs of Compressed Biogas (CBG) over wastelands in Assam. This will produce 8 lakh tonnes of clean biogas annually, enough to fuel 2 lakh passenger cars every day,” he said.

“Our third priority is to help Assam become a major supplier of food and non-food consumer products to national and international markets. We will set up a Mega Food Park, which will add value to the abundant agricultural and horticultural produce of Assam. We have already set up a world-class bottling plant in Assam for our Campa Cola and Independence range of packaged drinking water,” Ambani said.

He further stated, “Our fourth priority is to double the number of Reliance Retail stores in the state from existing 400 to 800 stores in the next five years. Our fifth priority is to boost the high-end hotel and hospitality economy in Assam. Reliance will build a luxurious, seven-star Oberoi hotel in the heart of Assam.”

Mukesh Ambani said that the five mega initiatives will create tens of thousands of direct and indirect job opportunities for Assamese youth. DeshGujarat