Adani Group plans one lakh crore rupee investment in West Bengal

The Adani Group has announced plans to invest over one lakh crore rupees in West Bengal by the year 2035. Group Chairman Gautam Adani made the announcement in Kolkata on Thursday during the inauguration of a new healthcare facility, in the presence of Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari.

Investment Sectors

The massive investment will cover ports, logistics, renewable energy, power generation, power transmission and distribution, roads and bridges, green cement, and hyperscale data centres. This proposal also marks the first time the group has mentioned entering the power distribution sector in West Bengal. Until now, power distribution in Kolkata and Howrah has been run exclusively by the R.P. Sanjiv Goenka Group through CESC Limited. Gautam Adani stated that West Bengal has the potential to become one of Asia's top industrial hubs and serve as a natural bridge to Northeast India and Southeast Asia.

Healthcare Project

The newly inaugurated Adani Arogya Mandir is a two-thousand-bed hospital spread across fifty-one point seven five acres. Promoters state that the facility will handle over two hundred thousand inpatients and two million outpatients every year. The project involves an investment of over four thousand crore rupees and includes a medical college and research facility designed to create more than ten thousand jobs in the state. Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari praised the project and criticized the past Trinamool Congress government for vote politics, while also noting that he recently met Reliance Industries chairman Mukesh Ambani to encourage further investments in the state.