Lucknow: Reliance Jio will invest another Rs 10,000 crore in Uttar Pradesh over the next three years, Reliance Industries Limited Chairman Mukesh Ambani said here on Wednesday.
Giving the youths of Uttar Pradesh a reason to rejoice, Reliance Industries Chairman Mukesh Ambani announced on Wednesday that Jio will create over one lakh jobs opportunities in the next three years in the state.
Labour Minister Bandaru Dattatreya had revealed in Lok Sabha last year that the unemployment rate in UP is higher than the national average. He had said that the national average of unemployment stood at 5.8%, while the rate of unemployment in rural areas of the state was 5.8% and in urban areas, it was 6.5%.
“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. Jio is providing the highest quality data at the lowest price in the world to over 2 crore citizens of Uttar Pradesh,”
Reliance Jio will invest Rs 10,000 crore in UP, to create 1 Lakh jobs:
Ambani said while addressing the Uttar Pradesh Investors’ Summit 2018.”I have come to Lucknow to assure the Prime Minister and the Chief Minister that Jio’s Digital Revolution is here to make the maximum contribution to UP’s development revolution,” he added.
While talking about affordable handsets, JioPhone, Ambani said: “Jio will make available over two crore JioPhones in UP within the next two months on a priority basis.”He mentioned that Jio has already created over 40,000 direct and indirect jobs in the state.
“Jio will establish a Centre for the Fourth Industrial Revolution within the campus of a reputed university in Uttar Pradesh,” Ambani added.
