Reliance Infrastructure : Mr Anil Ambani's speech at the Andhra Partnership Summit

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Remarks by Shri Anil D. Ambani at Andhra Partnership Summit, Visakhapatnam

10 January 2016

Good Afternoon!

Respected Chief Minister Sh. Chandrababu Naidu,

Honourable Minister Arun ji, Nirmala ji and Piyush ji Respected Secretary Sh. Amitabh Kant,

Chief Secretary, Andhra Pradesh, Sh. I Y R Krishna Rao, and distinguished guests!

I am honoured to be present here today at this maiden Partnership Summit - the first ever since the creation of the new State.

It is an even greater honour to share the stage with one of modern India's great visionaries - a leader known and respected the world over for his drive, his dynamism and his single-point agenda of development.

I've had the privilege of knowing Chief Minister Sh. Chandrababu Naidu or Nara Chandra Babu Garu as I like to call him for over 20 years.

My first memory of it goes back to the time of my father, Sh. Dhirubhai Ambani, in the early 1990s.

It was the time, sir, of your father-in-law and political mentor, the legendary Respected NTR. After my father met you for the first time - a meeting where I was fortunate to be present

- he told me: "Anil, here is a young man who's gifted by God with that rare ability: the ability to dream with his eyes open. He will be the true inheritor of NTR's legacy and mantle here in Andhra."

I also cannot forget the time when we were considering the setting up of a world class business school in India, for which five different Indian states were competing. I remember receiving a phone call, where you said, "Anil, you have to make sure that the business school comes to Andhra Pradesh! My government will deliver and do whatever it takes to make it happen."

While it is a matter of personal pride for me to have been associated with that venture from an embryonic stage, it was your ambition and leadership that propelled it to the deserving heights that it has achieved today. Today, the

Indian School of Business, Hyderabad, is widely regarded as one of the finest institutions of its kind anywhere in the world.

Andhra Pradesh today is divinely blessed by a very rare constellation of economic and political "nakshatras". A never-before coming together of political leaderships here in the state and in Delhi, which is so uniquely favourable for the growth and development of Andhra Pradesh.

So, on the one hand, we have Prime Minister Modi, with his path-breaking transformative economic vision for a New India, his philosophy of Cooperative Federalism, and his stated commitment to the rebuilding of a strong, prosperous Andhra, and on the other we have Chandrababu Garu with his unmatched ability of making things happen and his

`execution-is-king' motto.

Many of you would be familiar with a movie-series called 'Mission Impossible' or MI as it is sometimes referred to. Today, we have our own economic version of MI, thanks to Prime Minister Narendra-bhai.

And just like the blockbuster film series, these missions are a part of a continuing series that will catapult India to the next level of growth:

MI for Make in India

SI for Skilled and Start-up India DI for digital India

CI for Clean India

and I hope many more I's in the days to come!

Great leaders are known to make the impossible possible - a quality that Chandrababu Garu shares with our prime minister. No wonder, India's Missions Impossible are seeing the bright daylight of success and possibility across the country and particularly here in Andhra.

At the Reliance Group, we are proud to be at the forefront of this national effort. In consonance with the prime minister's vision of Make-in-India and Skill-India, we have ventured into the Defence sector by making India's largest defence acquisition at an outlay of more than Rs 10,000 cr.

Our acquisition of the Pipavav shipyard on the West Coast in Gujarat is a demonstration of our stated resolve to walk the talk and make India's -- and prime minister's -- vision a reality.