Ahmedabad, Jan. 12 -- Top industrial houses, including Reliance Industries and the Adani Group, lined up large investment proposals for Gujarat on the inaugural day of the Vibrant Gujarat Regional Conference for the Kutch and Saurashtra regions, in Rajkot on Sunday. The conference, a regional extension of the Vibrant Gujarat Global Summit, gathered policymakers, investors, entrepreneurs, startups, and international partners to boost investment in western Gujarat's 12 districts. The event featured over 1,800 B2B meetings, with expectations of around 1,500 memorandums of understanding (MoUs) to be signed over two days, involving more than 110 international buyers from 16 countries. Reliance Industries Ltd (RIL) chairman Mukesh Ambani pledged investments of Rs.7 lakh crore in Gujarat over the next five years. Karan Adani, managing director of Adani Ports and Special Economic Zone, stated that the group plans to invest Rs.1.5 lakh crore in Kutch during the same period. Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated the two-day event on Sunday. It focused on renewable energy, sustainability, clean technology, and regional industrial growth, aligning with the vision of Viksit Bharat @2047. Ambani lauded Modi for his leadership and vision in his speech. "You have restored to India its civilizational self-belief.Your vision has reshaped India's trajectory for the next fifty years and more," Ambani said. Reliance remains Gujarat's largest investor, Ambani noted. "In the last five years, we have invested over Rs.3.5 lakh crore. Today, I am pleased to announce that we will double this to Rs.7 lakh crore over the next five years, creating exponential employment, livelihoods, and greater sampatti for every Gujarati and every Indian," the RIL chairman said. Adani Ports and Special Economic Zone managing director Karan Adani said, "At a time when the global economy faces uncertainty and fragmentation, India is emerging as a bright spot - growing close to 8%, expanding its manufacturing base, and confidently progressing towards becoming a $5-trillion economy and the world's third largest." He noted that the group develops the world's largest renewable energy park with 37 gigawatts of capacity at Khavda in Kutch. "We will complete our Khavda project and commission full 37 GW of capacity by 2030, and we will also double our port capacity at Mundra in the next 10 years," Adani said. Jyoti CNC chairman Parakramsinh Jadeja said Vibrant Summits have positioned Gujarat as the country's growth engine. Jyoti CNC will invest Rs.10,000 crore over the next five years, Jadeja announced. Welspun Group chairman B.K. Goenka told the summit that the group plans to establish the world's largest pipeline plant in Gujarat with an investment of Rs.5,000 crore. He recalled the 2003 Vibrant Summit, when Modi-then Gujarat chief minister-advised him to set up a plant in Kutch instead of Vapi. "At that time, Prime Minister Modi advised me to set up the plant in Kutch, assuring that for every rupee invested, I would get a dollar in return. That promise has come true," he said. Ambani outlined Reliance's five major commitments to the state: unprecedented-scale investment for exponential employment and prosperity; global leadership in clean energy and green materials through the world's largest integrated clean energy ecosystem in Jamnagar; transformation of Kutch into a global clean energy hub with multi-gigawatt solar projects; establishment of Gujarat as India's AI pioneer via the country's largest AI-ready data centre in Jamnagar and a people-first AI platform; and full partnership with Gujarat's 2036 Olympics ambitions for Ahmedabad, including management of the Veer Savarkar Multi-Sports Complex in Naranpura to train champions, a new world-class hospital in Jamnagar, and multifold expansion of education facilities....