The Adani Group has announced plans to invest around Rs 1 lakh crore in Bengal by 2035, spanning ports, logistics, renewable energy, power and data centres, while laying the foundation for a Rs 4,000-crore healthcare and medical education institution in New Town.
Adani Group chairman Gautam Adani made the announcement at the foundation stone-laying ceremony for Adani Arogya Mandir in Bengal Silicon Valley. The 52-acre project is planned as a not-for-profit medical institution with 2,000 beds, including 1,000 beds for economically weaker sections eligible under state and central health insurance schemes.
The project is scheduled for completion in three years and will include a medical college with an annual intake of 150 undergraduate students, 100 postgraduate students and 40 super-specialists. It will also have a nursing college and an institution for allied healthcare and paramedical education.
Adani said the healthcare project would generate more than 10,000 jobs across the state’s healthcare ecosystem. The group chairman described Bengal as his “second karmabhoomi” after Mundra port in Gujarat, which he called his “first karmabhoomi”.
The foundation ceremony was attended by West Bengal Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari, who said the proposed institution could develop into an integrated healthcare city and strengthen medical tourism. “No state has such a facility. The final vision is not just a hospital in New Town but a fully integrated healthcare city that will give a boost to medical tourism,” Adhikari said, according to the report.
During the event, the Adani Group also signed memorandums of understanding with the state government for the restoration of Writers’ Buildings and for supporting Kolkata’s Durga Puja celebrations through an initiative called Adani Puja Preview. The group plans to organise a Durga Puja Preview Tour for national and international delegates from October 10 to 12, and provide grants of Rs 25 lakh each to eight puja committees in and around Kolkata.
Adhikari said the state government would provide assistance to the Adani Group for investments in Bengal and linked industrial development with the national objective of Viksit Bharat 2047. He also sought the group’s cooperation for the proposed greenfield airport at Kalyani.
A later meeting between Adani, his son and Adani Ports managing director Karan Adani, and the chief minister covered potential investment areas. According to sources cited in the report, discussions included the proposed deep-sea port at Dadanpatrabar in East Midnapore, a power project at Santaldih, the Kalyani airport and a ring road around Kolkata.
The Dadanpatrabar port proposal replaces an earlier plan for a port at Tajpur. The report did not provide a construction timeline, investment amount or implementation schedule for the port, airport, power project or ring road. The three-year completion timeline cited at the event applies to the Adani Arogya Mandir project.
