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Kuttam Adani has a knack for escaping the crisis. He was arrested two decades ago in an attempt to recover, and in 2008 he was one Hostages at the Taj Mahal Palace Hotel in Mumbai Terrorist attacks that killed more than 160 people.

Since then, his business acumen and ability to overcome obstacles has pushed him into the ranks of India’s richest. The outbreak of the corona virus engulfed the nation like never before With the recession this year, Adani’s team is growing. His joint venture has secured global partners and investments and pushed into new sectors.

Shares of most of his companies have risen, including his mining, gas and port units. Adani Green Energy Ltd. has more than quadrupled this year on record The $ 6 billion solar deal is another step towards the company’s goal of becoming the world’s largest renewable energy producer by 2025.

“There is a fomo syndrome in the market when it comes to Adani stocks,” said Sanjeev Pasin, director of investment management firm IIFL Securities Limited. “Its businesses are in line with the current federal-government vision. Therefore, the path for this joint venture to take at least five to six years is smooth.”

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With a net worth of $ 32.4 billion, Adani is India’s richest man after Mukesh Ambani, who dominated the headlines with some of Silicon Valley’s top names. This year alone, the shares have added $ 21.1 billion to Adani’s net worth – more than Ambani’s profit. Bloomberg Billionaires Table.

Representatives of the Adani Group declined to comment on the story.

“India’s position is similar to that of the American gilded era, with Ambani and Adani like modern Rockefellers and Vanderpools,” said James Croftree, an associate professor at the National University of Singapore and author of Billionaire Raj: A Journey into India’s New Gilded Age, which discusses the rise of the country’s princes. “Risk is that India is creating a business business oligarchy.”

After leaving college, Adani tried his luck in the diamond industry in Mumbai in the early 1980s. He soon returned to his home state of Gujarat to help run his brother’s plastics business before it was formed in 1988 Adani Enterprises Ltd., the group’s primary commodity trader. A decade later, he started operating the port of Mundra, located on the shores of the Arabian Sea, eventually building India’s largest private sector port operator.

The group has become the largest NGO generator in the country and a leader in coal mining and has expanded overseas. In Australia, the Chancellor is still handling Negative publicity for his Carmichael heat-coal project, for which he received approval after a decade-long struggle with regulators and environmental activists last year.

Like other entrepreneurs, Adani repeatedly chose hot new businesses that prompted the government to develop and competition was relatively low. Even now, the 58-year-old president often quotes ““Building the Nation” is a key project of his strategy, which is in line with Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s vision.

“The way they have grown from a business in Ahmedabad into a joint with many verticals and good diversification – the journey is amazing,” said Umesh Mehta, head of research at Samco Securities in Mumbai. “They had a bright future to build a business with growth potential that would somehow help India with the blessings of the government.”

Adani rose in the ranks just as Gujarati Modi came to power. The businessman started the business operations of Mundra Port and built its industrial zone when Modi was the executive chairman of the state and was one of the main supporters of the politician for almost two decades.

The rapid diversification of the millionaire began in 2015. When Modi promised Create a local production of safety equipment, he said quickly Developed the ability to provide the military Partnership with security contractors. Three years later, a Pushing into the gas eventually transformed his empire into the nations of India Largest retailer of fuel in the private sector. In 2019, he began to focus Airports, now trying to enter the fields he entered Data storage and Financial services.

“Modi’s policies have helped business groups since his Gujarat days and have helped the rapid growth of companies like the Adani Group,” said Indira Hirve, director of the Center for Development Alternatives in Ahmedabad. “Combining corporate strategies with government priorities – this is the way to do business in India.”