Everyone salutes the rising sun. And somewhere he dazzles everyone’s eyes by being hot like the afternoon sun. The name of one such successful personality is Gautam Adani, who was born into a lower-middle-class family, once he had to leave his studies in the middle due to the poor economic condition of the house, today he is counted among the selected hundred billionaires of the world.
This success has not been easily achieved in this journey of Gautam Adani, one of the most successful businessmen. Especially since Narendra Modi has become the country’s Prime Minister, he has to face various kinds of criticisms and allegations.
Early Life of Gautam Adani
Gautam Adani was born on 24 June 1962 in a Gujarati Jain family in Ahmedabad. Adani’s father, one of his seven siblings, had once moved from Tharad town to live in this northern part of Gujarat. Adani says, ‘Today we have four helicopters. The Chief Minister of the Gujarat Government also uses his helicopter. For this he pays. As far as the Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi is concerned, he also uses his helicopter not for free but by paying a fee.
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It’s about the 1980s. At that time Adani was seen by people sitting behind the scooter of his childhood friend Malay Mahadevia in Ahmedabad city. A special reason for this friendship was Adani’s weak but Mahadevia’s good English. Later Mahadevia became his business partner. Adani is one of the few successful industrialists in India who have achieved the ‘billionaire success’ of rising from the floor to the throne.
His father lived in Seth Chawl in the Pol area of Ahmedabad due to poor economic conditions. Today their business is spread across the world in coal trading, mining, oil and gas distribution, ports, multi-modal logistics, and power generation transmission.
Success and Personal Life of Gautam Adani
At present, he is the owner of assets of about ten billion dollars. He is the biggest export company in the country. He bought his Beechcraft jet in 2005 and his Hawker jet in 2008. He has achieved all this in just three and a half decades. Adani has recently announced an investment of Rs 35 thousand crores in Uttar Pradesh. His wife Preeti is a dentist by profession and also heads the Adani Foundation. They have two sons Karan and Jeet.
The father of the top Ambani empire in our country is not today’s industrialists Mukesh Ambani and Anil Ambani, but their father Dhiru Bhai Ambani. Similarly, the empire of Tata-Birla has also been built by their forefathers but Gautam Adani has reached this point on his own. At the time when he joined Gujarat University to study B.Com, in those days there was a crisis of livelihood in front of the house. Missed studies in a worrying situation. He didn’t join college and embarked on a challenging journey to earn money. Leaving his city, he went to Mumbai and started working there in a diamond company on a very meager salary.
How Gautam Adani Reached the Top
Hardworking and talented from the beginning, he barely found his footing in that company Diamond Sort Mahindra Bros for a year or two, quit the job, and opened his own diamond brokerage organization in Jhaveri Bazar. In the year 1981, Mansukhbhai set up a plastics unit in Ahmedabad and asked Gautam Adani to run the company. He then took over the PVC unit of his elder brother and gradually expanded the business. In the year 1988, he established Adani Enterprises, an import-export company. It is also said that Adani, who started his business journey with Maruti-800, has BMW vehicles, a Ferrari, three helicopters, three Bombardier, and Beechcraft aircraft.
Adani’s personal wealth is said to have been around $5 billion when Narendra Modi took over as prime minister in April 2014, which has risen to Rs 63,000 crore today, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. Difficult situations remain in front of them even today on many shows outside the country. He got the opportunity to mine the largest coal mine in Queensland, Australia costing about $16.6 billion, for which he was also given a loan of about one billion dollars by the Australian government, but the project came under controversy. Australian environmentalists started saying that this project is harmful to the environment. The controversy regarding this project has not subsided even today.
Similarly, his project of a diamond mine in Madhya Pradesh is also in media headlines these days. Billionaire Anil Agarwal-controlled Adani Group and Vedanta Resources Group are reportedly going to bid together for a diamond project worth Rs 59,000 crore. For this, bids can be invited in the coming November. The mine is estimated to contain 32 million carats of diamonds. Today Gautam Adani expanding his industries in Odisha, Haryana, Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, and Rajasthan.
So, Friends, This is the story about billionaire Gautam Adani, Who is currently a hot topic for the news channels. I hope you like this article, Thanks for reading it.