The country's most valued company Reliance Industries (RIL) is building a partnership with the US in many sunrise industries like life-sciences, biotechnology and retail."Reliance is hugely US-centric spanning different areas such as energy, retail, life sciences including bio-technology and integrated infrastructure.....That is how Reliance is involved with the United States," Mukesh Ambani, chairman, RIL said after receiving the Global Vision Award 2007 for Leadership from the US-India Business Council yesterday.He said with the new sense of confidence that India has achieved, the country can build a strong partnership with the US on a wider canvas.Ambani said that agriculture offers a great opportunity for the private sector in the country along with energy and renewable energy.Expressing concern over the benefits of globalisation not reaching the poor, Ambani said innovative business models could help bridge the gap between the islands of prosperity and vast poverty in the world."While globalisation has created specialised places, we cannot have islands of prosperity with places of poverty and squalor," he said."The world is a skewed place where 15% of the global population were getting away with 85% of the income. A lot of people say the world is flat. I think it is spiky," Ambani said.He said his father late Dhirubhai Ambani believed in the democratisation of wealth and in the youth.The power of youth is the mainstay of RIL, which is the country's number one company in terms of market valuation. The average age of the RIL's 1,00,000 employees is 29 years.
