To mark Adani's 60th birthday, family pledges Rs 60K cr to charities

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