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Gautam Adani: Over a ten-year period, the Adani group would spend Rs 50,000 crores in the Northeast

Arpita Kushwaha May 23, 2025 07:27 PM

Gautam Adani, the chairman of the Adani group, revealed on Friday that the company will spend an extra Rs 50,000 crores over the next ten years in various parts of the country’s northeast.

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The main focus of Adani Group’s investment, according to Gautam Adani, who spoke at the ‘Rising Northeast Investors Summit’ in New Delhi, will be green energy. He also mentioned “smart meters, hydro, pumped storage, power transmission, roads & highways, digital infrastructure, logistics, as well as capacity-building through skilling and vocational training centers.”

However, we shall invest in people more than in infrastructure. Local employment, local entrepreneurship, and community involvement would be given top priority in every endeavor, according to Gautam Adani. “This rise is the vision of one leader who recognized no borders, only beginnings,” he added, expressing gratitude for Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s vision for the Northeast.

Your words, “Act East, Act Fast, Act First,” served as a wake-up call for the Northeast, Hon. Prime Minister. According to the head of the Adani group, the company has spent Rs6.2 lakh crore in the northeastern states throughout the last 10 years, since 2014.

In the Northeast, he said, “the road network has doubled to 16,000 km” and “the number of airports has doubled to 18.” According to him, the Guwahati Airport, which is operated by the Adani Group, recently handled 3.26 million domestic arrivals and 3.30 million departures.

Prior to Gautam Adani, Jyotiraditya M. Scindia, the Union Minister for Communications and Development of the North Eastern Region, emphasized the revolutionary advancements made by the North Eastern states under Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s leadership throughout the last ten years.

The minister recalled how the N-E area used to have only nine airports and two states had no airports at all, among other infrastructural deficiencies. The Northeast now boasts seventeen airports, thanks to PM Modi’s leadership, which has given the area a boost in connectivity and economic integration.