Kolkata (West Bengal) [India], September 24 (ANI): Adani Group plans to speculate greater than Rs 1 lakh crore throughout Bengal over the following decade, spanning sectors together with ports, logistics, energy, roads, inexperienced cement and hyperscale information centres, Founder and Chairman Gautam Adani mentioned on Thursday.
Talking on the Indian Chamber of Commerce (ICC) Annual Session & AGM 2026 in Kolkata, Adani mentioned the group’s dedication to Bengal goes past particular person initiatives.
“Our dedication to Bengal goes far past particular person initiatives. Over the approaching decade, our intent is to deploy over one lakh crore rupees throughout Bengal,” Adani mentioned.
“It will span ports, logistics, energy technology, energy transmission and distribution, roads, bridges and ropeways, inexperienced cement, in addition to hyperscale information centres,” he added.
Adani mentioned jap India must play a bigger function within the nation’s subsequent section of financial development, after a lot of India’s financial momentum over the previous a number of a long time was pushed by the western and southern components of the nation.
“For India’s subsequent trillion {dollars} of development, the East should rise. And that is the place Bengal turns into important to fulfil the imaginative and prescient of Viksit Bharat,” he mentioned.
Highlighting Bengal’s geographical place, Adani mentioned the state is linked to the mineral and industrial areas of Odisha, Jharkhand and Chhattisgarh, whereas additionally offering entry in direction of the Northeast and markets throughout Southeast Asia and the Indo-Pacific.
“Within the language of infrastructure, Bengal just isn’t merely simply one other market. It’s a strategic nationwide node ready for the growth of its potential networks,” he mentioned.
Adani additionally highlighted the group’s plans for the Adani Arogya Mandir, a 2,000-bed medical institute in New City, which he mentioned was introduced earlier within the day. Half of the hospital’s beds shall be devoted to individuals who can not afford high quality medical care.
The Adani Group Chairman additionally mentioned the corporate has been getting ready for rising demand for synthetic intelligence-linked digital infrastructure. He mentioned its early preparations to construct gigawatt-scale capability for world hyperscalers have given the group “the most important order guide of Knowledge Centres within the nation.”
Adani mentioned India must construct infrastructure forward of demand as provide chains shift, power safety turns into extra necessary and digital and bodily infrastructure more and more converge.
“We should create power capability earlier than power turns into a constraint. We should construct ports, logistics, and industrial ecosystems earlier than provide chains relocate. We should construct digital infrastructure earlier than the following wave of expertise arrives,” he mentioned. (ANI)
