Reliance Industries Chairman Mukesh Ambani has announced his plans to make India’s north-eastern state Assam “tech ready and AI ready.” Speaking at the Advantage Assam 2.0 Investment and Infrastructure Summit, he highlighted Assam’s digital transformation as his “noble and patriotic mission.”
As per Ambani, the company plans to increase its investment in Assam to over ₹50,000 crore in the next five years. With the significant advancement, the firm has planned to develop an AI-ready data centre with a focus to support various sectors, by facilitating students with AI-assisted teachers, aiding doctors with AI-driven diagnostics, and revolutionizing agriculture with AI-assisted farming.
Ambani also highlighted the AI’s potential to set Assam’s youth to “learn from home and earn from home.”
As reported by the Times of India, this move aims to strengthen India’s digital landscape and also this action regulates the company’s broader vision to boost the AI capabilities and add infrastructure across the country.
Industry experts see this as a major step in positioning India as a global leader in AI and data-driven technologies. Aside from AI, the company’s focus is also to boost the tourism, green energy, agriculture and food processing. And this step by the firm is expected to create thousands of jobs, which will also play a major role in the region’s economic growth.
However, in the year 2008, Reliance Industries had allotted ₹5,000 Crore on Assam and now its investment has exceeded ₹12,000 Crore. And with this AI project, the firm aims to advance Assam’s digital transformation and economic growth.
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