Reliance Industries Limited is an Indian multinational conglomerate headquartered in Mumbai. Its businesses include energy,petrochemicals,natural gas,retail,telecommunications,mass media,entertainment,and textiles. Reliance is the largest public company in India by market capitalisation and revenue,and the 100th largest company worldwide. In 2023,the company was ranked 45th in the Forbes Global 2000. It is India's largest private tax payer and largest exporter,accounting for 7% of India's total merchandise exports. The company has relatively little free cash flow and high corporate debt.
Dwarka is a town and municipality of Devbhumi Dwarka district in the state of Gujarat. It is located on the western shore of the Okhamandal Peninsula on the right bank of the Gomti river at the mouth of the Gulf of Kutch facing the Arabian Sea.
Mukesh Dhirubhai Ambani is an Indian billionaire businessman. He is the chairman and managing director of Reliance Industries,India's most valuable company by market value. With an estimated net worth of $117.8 billion according to Forbes as of March 2024,he is the richest person in Asia and 9th richest in the world. Sometimes characterized as a plutocrat;he has attracted both fame and notoriety for reports of market manipulation,political corruption,cronyism,and exploitation.
Jamnagar is a city located on the western coast of India in the state of Gujarat of Saurashtra region. It is the administrative headquarters of the Jamnagar district and the fifth largest city in Gujarat. The city lies just to the south of the Gulf of Kutch,some 337 kilometres (209 mi) west of the state capital,Gandhinagar.
Jamnagar District is a district of Gujarat in Western India. Its headquarters are located in the eponymous city of Jamnagar. It hosts the production facilities of large Indian companies such as Reliance. Among its attractions are several palaces,a Marine National Park and a Bird Sanctuary,known as Khijadiya Bird Sanctuary. In 2013,Devbhoomi Dwarka district was carved out of the western part of the district.
Madhusudan Devram Mistry is an Indian politician belonging to the Indian National Congress.
The Jamnagar Refinery is a private sector crude oil refinery owned by Reliance Industries in Jamnagar,Gujarat,India. The refinery was commissioned on 14 July 1999 with an installed capacity of 668,000 barrels per day (106,200 m3/d). Its current installed capacity is 1,240,000 barrels per day (197,000 m3/d). It is currently the largest refinery in the world.
Vadodara Stock Exchange (VSE) is a defunct stock exchange located in the city of Vadodara,and fully owned by Government of India in Western India. It was established in 1990 at Vadodara. It is the only existing stock exchange in the state of Gujarat along with Ahmedabad. It is recognized by the Securities Contract (Regulations) Act of 1956 as a permanent stock exchange.
Devdas Apte is an Indian politician from Bharatiya Janata Party and a former member of the Parliament of India representing Jharkhand in the Rajya Sabha,the Upper House of the Parliament. He sat in Parliament from 2 July 2002 to 9 April 2008,when he retired. The son of Shri Kashi Nath and Shrimati Girija Apte,he received a B.A. from Nagpur University,Nagpur,and served as a social worker before going into politics.
Gujarat State Road Transport Corporation,abbreviated GSRTC,is a Government State Transport Undertaking of Gujarat for passengers facilitating with road public transport in moffusil / city services. GSRTC operates within the state of Gujarat,India and neighboring states. It has a fleet of 8703 buses.
The economy of Gujarat,a state in Western India,is the most industrialised in India,having the highest industrial output of any state in the union.It has the highest exports of any Indian state,accounting for 33% of all Indian exports in 2022-23. It leads in diverse industrial sectors such as chemicals,petrochemicals,dairy,drugs and pharmaceuticals,cement and ceramics,gems and jewellery,textiles and engineering. It has the highest Electricity Production Capacity and Maritime Port Cargo Volume among all states in India. It also has significant agricultural production with major agricultural produce of the state being cotton,groundnuts (peanuts),dates,sugar cane,milk and milk products. Gujarat recorded the lowest unemployment rate in India in 2022,with 4.4% of the labour force being unemployed.
The Polyester Prince:The Rise of Dhirubhai Ambani is an unauthorised biography of the Indian business tycoon and founder of Reliance Industries Limited (RIL) Dhirubhai Ambani by Hamish McDonald,an Australian journalist and author. This book was published in 1998 in Australia by Allen &Unwin but never published in India.
Sudama Setu is a pedestrian suspension bridge in Dwarka,Gujarat,India. It is named for Sudama,a childhood friend of Krishna. Proposed in 2005,the bridge was opened in 2016.
Panda Madhusudana Siva Prasad is an engineer by profession and is the present Executive Director of Reliance Industries. He is the senior most individual in the Reliance Industries day-to-day operations corporate organizational chart excluding Chairman Mukesh Ambani. PMS Prasad has also served as the Chief Executive Officer of Reliance Petroleum Limited.
Hazira Manufacturing Division (HMD) is the manufactory of Reliance Industries Limited (RIL) located at Hazira,Gujarat,India in Surat. It was commissioned in 1991–92. It is a multi-product,fully integrated complex,manufacturing a wide range of petrochemicals,polymers,polyesters and polyester intermediates. Naphtha is the main raw material of this manufactory,A Naphtha cracker facility crackes the Naphtha and feeds the downstream fiber intermediates,plastics and polyester plants. The manufactory consists integrated utilities system which includes raw water,cooling water,demineralized water,fire water,compressed air,nitrogen,steam/condensate and a Coal based Captive power plant.
Dahej Manufacturing Division (DMD) is the manufactory of Reliance Industries Limited located at Dahej,Gujarat,India near Bharuch. It comprises a Gas cracker which cracks Ethane,Propane and produces Ethylene and Propylene as a product and the same is used as a raw material in downstream plants. The raw material like Propane is either imported or availed from RIL refinery at Jamnagar. The manufactory consists integrated utilities system which includes raw water,cooling water,demineralized water,fire water,compressed air,nitrogen,steam/condensate and a coal based captive co-generation power plant of capacity 270 MW.
Pushpa Janardanrai Mehta,also known as Pushpaben Mehta,was an Indian social worker and politician from Gujarat. She founded and headed several women and child welfare organisations in Ahmedabad and Saurashtra region. She served as the member of legislative assemblies of Saurashtra,Bombay and Gujarat states consecutively from 1952 to 1962. She served as the member of Rajya Sabha from 1966 to 1972. She was awarded the Padma Bhushan in 1956.
