Giving a boost to Andhra Pradesh in its efforts to garner big ticket investments that could spur job creation, Reliance Industries Limited today inked two agreements with the state government promising a total investment of Rs 52,000 crore in oil and gas and electronics sectors.
The Memorandum of Understandings were a follow-up action to the meeting Reliance Industries Limited Chairman Mukesh Ambani had with Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu in Amaravati on February 13.
Reliance will invest about 6 billion USD about Rs (37,000 crore) in an oil and gas venture in AP and another Rs 15,000 crore in an electronics manufacturing plant near Tirupati. These ventures are expected to create 25,000 jobs over the next few years, the Chief Minister announced yesterday.
The MoUs were signed by Reliance president Kiran Thomas and AP government?s Principal Secretaries Ajay Jain and K Vijayanand in the presence of Chandrababu Naidu on the second day of the Partnership Summit at Visakhapatnam.
Reliance Jio will establish an electronics manufacturing park near Tirupati in Chittoor district to manufacture mobile phones and set-top boxes.The Indian industry major will set up the facility on a 150-acre site, a senior official informed India Today.
As a pre-condition to setting up the electronics manufacturing park, Mukesh Ambani, during his meeting with the Chief Minister, wanted the state government to promote clusters of educational institutions like ITIs and diploma colleges in the vicinity to create employment right after education, another senior official said to PTI. He also asked the government to develop a workmen housing corridor near Tirupati Growth Corridor, reported India Today.
