Bhubaneswar, Nov 12 (UNI) Reliance is working on creating the world’s largest online-to-offline New Commerce Platform and transforming the lives and businesses of three crore merchants and small shopkeepers in the country,Chairman and Managing Director Reliance Industries Limited Mukesh D Ambani said.
“We will enable them to do everything that large enterprises and large ecommerce players are able to do”, Mr Ambani said while addressing the Make in Odisha Conclave here today.
“I can assure you that Reliance and Jio will considerably improve the Ease of Living of each and every citizen of India, and also improve the Ease of Doing Business for Odisha’s small and medium enterprises”, he said.
Mr Ambani said Prime Minister Narendra Modi's inspiring vision of Digital India is to make India a leader in the digital economy globally adding that today, India is the fastest digitizing economy in the whole world.
Stating that Jio is leading India’s digital transformation, he said since Jio commenced operations a little over two years ago, India has moved from the 155th rank in mobile broadband penetration to being the number one nation in mobile data consumption in the world.
With JioGigaFiber, Mr Ambani said, “We have now begun an ambitious push in the fixed broadband through Fiber-to-the-home and Fiber-to-the-premises and our aim and resolve is to ensure that India rises from the present 135th rank to be among the top three nations in fixed broadband in the next three years'.
Mr Ambani said, “I have a big reason for focusing on the digital business.The world is at the cusp of a digital revolution. Everything in the world is going digital – music, movies, commerce, banking, cars, homes, healthcare, education – every aspect of life is going digital'.
Digital technologies will completely transform every sector of the economy, and every field of life and this will be achieved by using the most powerful tool of our times…the tools of connectivity and digital technologies. New generation digital technologies, with Artificial Intelligence at their core, are rapidly transforming our world like never before in world history, he added.
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