Jaipur, Rajasthan: Adani Group Chairman Gautam Adani addresses at the 51st India Gems and Jewellery Awards, says, In 1995, the BJP-led Gujarat government’s port-led development plan sparked our journey into infrastructure, starting with Mundra Port. From betting on myself as a young diamond trader to building India's largest port, private railway, and thermal power plant, to operating the largest airport network, investing globally, and pioneering projects like the India-Middle East corridor, our growth has been a story of bold vision and innovation.
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00:00While the import-export business did very well, I had started questioning the status quo.
00:10I began realizing that for the next phase of growth,
00:18I would need to own assets and build something lasting. In other words,
00:25I had to challenge everything I knew. Remember, I had no experience in building anything.
00:41We had not even laid a single brick in our life.
00:45But opportunities show up for those that seek. And it was in 1995 that a transformative
01:00opportunity emerged when the BJP-led Gujarat government announced its pot-led industrial
01:10development plan under a public-private partnership model. To summarize a long story,
01:22we quickly moved to establish Mundraport. This transition, about 30 years back,
01:34was the start of our journey into the domain of infrastructure.
01:41My dear friends, I tell my team all the time that the future belongs to those
01:57who dare to see beyond the present and who recognize that today's limits
02:04are our tomorrow's starting points. Therefore, be it my leaving home to bet on myself as a young
02:15diamond trader or believing that we could build the nation's largest pot against the advice of
02:25all experts, to laying India's first private railway to connect Mundraport,
02:38to being able to establish the world's largest single-site thermal power generation capacity,
02:48to building the world's largest coal import terminal, to being the first in India to build
02:59the first private HVDC line, to making India's largest ever investment in an OECD country,
03:11to operating India's largest network of airports, to investing in a pot in Israel
03:21and making a bet on the future of the India-Middle East corridor.