Chapter 1 - Introduction 1.1. Overview of Industry As A
Chapter 1 - Introduction 1.1. Overview of Industry As A
Chapter 1 - Introduction 1.1. Overview of Industry As A
Reliance Industries Limited (RIL) is India’s largest private sector company on all major
financial parameters. It has emerged as the only Indian company in the list of global
companies that create most value for their shareholders, published by Financial Times
based on a global survey and research conducted by PricewaterhouseCoopers in 2004.
RIL features in the Forbes Global list of world’s 400 best big companies and in FT
Global 500 list of world’s largest companies.
Reliance Infocomm is the outcome of late Dhirubhai Ambani’s dream of bringing about a
digital revolution in India that will bring to every Indian’s doorstep an affordable means
of information and communication.
"Make the tools of infocomm available to people at an affordable cost. They will
overcome the handicaps of illiteracy and lack of mobility", was how Dhirubhai, as he was
fondly called, spelt out Reliance Infocomm’s mission in late 1999. He firmly believed the
country could use information and communication technology to overcome its
backwardness and underdevelopment.
It was with this belief that Reliance Infocomm began laying its 60,000 route kilometres
of pan-India fibre optic backbone in 1999. The backbone was commissioned on
December 28, 2002, Dhirubhai’s 70th birth anniversary, first since his sad demise on July
6, 2002.