TIL Desk/Business/Mumbai/ In one of the biggest donations by a business family in India, the family of Adani Group chairman Gautam Adani on Thursday committed to donating Rs 60,000 crore (around $7.7 billion) to various charities related to health care, education, and skill development. The commitment has been made to mark Gautam Adani’s 60th birthday on Friday as well as the birth centenary year of his father Shantilal Adani.
The corpus will be administered by the Adani Foundation. “At a very fundamental level, [programmes] related to all these three areas should be seen holistically and they collectively form the drivers to build an equitable and future-ready India. “Our experience in large project planning and execution and learnings from the work done by the Adani Foundation will help us uniquely accelerate these programmes,” Adani said.
Azim Premji, chairman of Azim Premji Foundation and founder-chairman of software major Wipro, said: “Gautam Adani and his family’s commitment towards philanthropy should set an example that we can all try to live Mahatma Gandhi’s principle of trusteeship of wealth at the peak of our business success and need not wait for our sunset years.”
