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Mukesh Ambani's Reliance Industries to create 80,000 jobs in Assam, Tata Sons too will invest big

RIL would invest across the Assamese sectors including retail, petroleum, telecom, tourism and sports.

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Mukesh Ambani's Reliance Industries would invest around Rs 2500 crore in the north eastern state Assam. RIL would invest across the Assamese sectors including retail, petroleum, telecom, tourism and sports. 

The move would create as close to 80,000 jobs in next three years, the company said. 

"Today I am happy to announce five commitments for Assam over the next three years. Reliance will invest an additional Rs 2,500 crore to augment its presence in this market," he said at the inaugural function of the Global Investors Summit 2018 here. Under this programme, the company will enhance its retail division's outlet to 40 from existing two, while the number of petrol depots will be increased to 165 from the existing 27, he added."We are also going to open new offices in all 145 tehsil headquarters across Assam. Our approach has always been to create sustainable livelihood opportunities and have generated 20,000 jobs in Assam," Mukesh Ambani said on Saturday.

Assam has always been a low priority market for other telecom operators, but it is a 'Category A' market for Reliance, he added."We now target to increase the sustainable livelihood opportunities by five-fold to 1,00,000 jobs," he further added.

Ambani has made the promise at the Making at the inauguration of Advantage Assam— global investment summit. Prime Minister Narendra Modi also attended the event. 

Tata Sons Chairman, K Chandrasekaran also promised that the firm would invest one billion dollar in Assam in next two years to touch the lives of two million people in Assam. 

He highlighted age-old association of Tata groups entities with Assam in different sectors including tea, consultancy, engineering, healthcare, livelihood etc. 

The CMD of Spice Jet, Ajoy Singh disclosed the plan of the airline which have good presence in the region, to use Guwahati International airport as a gateway to ASEAN countries and introduce sea planes in this land of Brahmaputra River and its numerous tributaries to promote tourism and provide employment avenues to local youth.

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