Amaravati, Feb 27 (PTI) Triveni Glass Ltd will invest Rs 1,000 crore to set up a 840 metric tonnes per day capacity solar glass manufacturing plant in Andhra Pradesh, the government said on Monday.

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The glassmaker will set up the plant at Pangidi in East Godavari district, which will create 2,000 jobs.

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Triveni Glass managing director Varun Gupta met Chief Minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy today and deliberated on investments in the southern state, which is on the cusp of holding Global Investors' Summit in Visakhapatnam on March 3 and 4, an official statement said.

Reddy promised full cooperation to Triveni Glass and told Gupta that the State offers good human resources and other facilities, it said.

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