Mukesh Ambani commits Rs 10,000 crore fresh investment in Bengal

Reliance Industries Chairman Mukesh Ambani Thursday announced Rs 10,000-crore fresh investment in West Bengal over and above the Rs 28,000 crore corpus pumped in so far. "Today, our investments stand at Rs 28,000 crore in West Bengal alone, and we have firmed up our plan for further investment of over Rs 10,000 crore," Ambani said at the inaugural session of Bengal Global Business Summit here. Most of the investments would be from Reliance Jio. Jio network will cover 100 per cent of the state's population, he said.

(With inputs from agencies.)