Industrialists promise investments for Digital India
New Delhi, July 1: In the “Digital India Week” programme launched by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday, India Inc. committed an investment of Rs.450,000 crore (some $75 billion) for the initiative that seeks to empower citizens by deploying IT and associated tools.
The industry leaders who promised investments were:
Reliance Group's Anil Ambani -- Rs.10,000 crore
Reliance Industries' Mukesh Ambani -- Rs.250,000 crore
Aditya Vikram Birla Group's Kumarmangalam Birla - Rs.420 billion ($7 bn) in the next five years of which they will invest Rs.120 billion ($2 bn) in Digital India areas
Bharti Group's Sunil Mittal - Rs.1 lakh crore ($16 billion)
Vedanta's Anil Agarwal - Rs.40,000 crore
Delta Electronics' Ping Cheng - Rs.30 billion ($500 million)
Nidec Corporation's Mikio Katayama - Rs.60 billion ($1 billion)