Reliance to manufacture mobile phones and set-top boxes in West Bengal

Reliance Industries Ltd. Chairman Mukesh Ambani said on Tuesday that Reliance will manufacture mobile phones and set-top boxes in West Bengal.

"We shall be working with multiple partners to explore setting up next-generation state-of-the-art electronics manufacturing facilities and make West Bengal the hub for innovation and hi-tech technologies for consumer devices such as mobile phones, set-top boxes, and other devices," he said at the fourth Bengal Global Business Summit in Kolkata.

He said that "The JioPhone has become the center of innovation world-over and it is available at effectively zero cost to the consumer has received a rousing welcome from across West Bengal."

"We have invested not just the committed Rs 4,500 crore but nearly triple that amount Rs 15,000 crore in Bengal.Didi - we could make this large investment only because you have created a friendly climate and an enabling policy infrastructure and today, in just two short years, Reliance has emerged as one of the largest investors in Bengal." Ambani further said.

He asserted that, for Reliance, Jio is not just another business. It is a mission to transform India ─ to transform Bengal.
Jio will give seamless, high-quality digital connectivity, unmatched anywhere else in the world and its initiatives have delivered sustained new employment opportunities ─ both direct and indirect ─ to over 100,000 people in the state.

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"Out of a population of 9 crore people, today we have over 1.2 crores loyal Jio customers in Bengal. We are grateful for their support, love and unstinted support to Jio. And our aim is to increase this manifold in the coming years, Ambani added.

He also praised Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee by saying Didi, under your leadership, West Bengal is becoming Best Bengal!

He said, the state is famous for the ease of doing business, and it has happened because there are industrial peace and pace in the state. Bengal today means business.Bengal has said goodbye to the slow growth rate of the past. It is now embracing the future with the grace and agility of the Bengal Tiger.

Today, West Bengal is the fourth largest state economy in India, growing at 15.64 percent GVA.This is much higher than the national average.

In fact, a global think-tank ranked Kolkata second among the Indian metros on overall economic performance, even ahead of Mumbai.