Reliance Industries Ltd has announced an investment of Rs 75000 crore in the North Eastern states. The investment will be used to establish 350 biogas plants expanding telecom services retail operations and clean energy projects chairman Mukesh Ambani stated on Friday. Speaking at the Rising NorthEast Investors Summit Mukesh Ambani chairman and managing director of Reliance Industries also revealed other plans to build factories for high-quality FMCG products in the region and a 150-bed cancer hospital in Manipur. Reliance has invested around Rs 30000 crore in the region in the past 40 years. In the next five years we will more than double our investments with our target at Rs 75000 crore he said. This will create over 2.5 million direct and indirect employment opportunities as the conglomerate aspires to touch the lives of most of the 45 million population in the North-East. Ambani said he is making six commitments to the Chief Ministers of Arunachal Pradesh Assam Manipur Meghalaya Mizoram Nagaland Sikkim and Tripura. The groups telecom unit Jio has already covered 90 per cent of the population with over 5 million 5G subscribers. We will double this number this year he said. Jios priority will be to bring the revolutionary power of Artificial Intelligence to all schools hospitals enterprises and homes. When talent meets technology and competence meets connectivity our North-East will surge ahead he said. Ambani said Reliance Retail will vastly increase its procurement of staples fruits and vegetables to boost the income of farmers. We will also invest in factories for high-quality FMCG products in the region and promote the regions fabulous artisan economy he said. In clean energy Reliance will look to greatly enhance generation of solar power in the region he said without giving details. In line with the vision of converting waste to wealth Reliance will convert the regions vast wasteland into wealth-land by setting up 350 integrated compressed biogas plants which will turn organic waste into gas which could be used as CNG for transportation as well as fuel in industries and cooking in kitchens he said. Ambani said Reliance Foundation the philanthropic arm of the group will bring the best of cancer care to the North-East. To begin with we have established a 150-bed comprehensive cancer hospital in Manipur. We are collaborating with Mizoram University on the care of breast cancer using genomic data. In Guwahati we have built an Advanced Molecular Diagnostics and Research Lab. It will be among the largest Genome Sequencing Capacities in India he said. We will help transform the North-East into a healthcare hub and a research powerhouse. Stating that the North-East is a treasure-house of world-class talent in multiple sports he said Reliance Foundation will work with all eight states to set up Olympic Training Centres which will prepare our youth to be tomorrows medal-winners in Olympics. To Prime Minister Narendra Modi he said You have achieved something unbelievable and unimaginable. You have brought the North-East from the periphery to the centre of Indias developmental map from the margins to the mainstream of the India Story! Under your guidance we in industry will work with all the Chief Ministers to make the North-East an inspiring model to demonstrate to the rest of the world... how we can make progress how development can take care of Dharti Maa how Laxmi Mata can reach every home and how Bharat Mata indeed embraces all her children with her boundless love. (With Inputs From PTI)