But the larger opportunity is not just the electricity that it generates. It is what that energy can attract. Energy infrastructures will no longer simply serve the industrial geography. Instead, every infrastructure will create the industrial geography.
There was however one more thing these two projects had in common. Both required us to look beyond the obvious opportunity and take on complexity, capital intensity, and execution risk at a scale that made them difficult to justify. For us, that complexity was not a reason to stay away. It was precisely the opportunity we were attracted to because the hardest infrastructure to build eventually becomes the hardest infrastructure to compete with.
And this, my friends, brings me to Bengal. But before I speak of what we at Adani hope to build in Bengal, I want to pause and pay tribute to those who never stop building for Bengal: to the industrialists, the multigenerational business houses, the resilient entrepreneurs, and the tireless traders of Bengal who choose to stay rooted in this soil through every turn of the economic cycle. And it is upon their foundations that we at Adani see the promise of Bengal.
For several decades, much of India's economic momentum has been driven by the western and southern corridors of our country. The next chapter must create new centers of gravity, however challenging it may be. For India's next trillion dollars of growth, the east must rise.
And this is where Bengal becomes essential to fulfill the vision of Vikshit Bharat. And in my view, no location in India matches Bengal's combination of advantage. To the west lie the mineral and industrial heartlands of Odisha, Jharkhand, and Chhattisgarh. To its north and east lies the gateway to India's northeast. Through the Bay of Bengal lies some of the fastest growing markets of Southeast Asia and the Indo-Pacific, with access to 60% of the global GDP and 65% of the global population.
In the language of infrastructure, Bengal is not simply just another market. It is a strategic national node waiting for the expansion of its potential networks. And this is how at Adani we see the promise of Bengal.
My dear friends, our commitment to Bengal goes far beyond individual projects. Over the coming decade, our intent is to deploy over one lakh crore rupees across Bengal. This will span ports, logistics, power generation, power transmission and distribution, roads, bridges, ropeways, green cement, as well as hyperscale data centers.
Yet development cannot ultimately be measured only in cargo volumes, megawatts, tons, or terabytes. Its true measure must remain deeply human. That is why one of our most meaningful commitments, which we announced earlier today, is the creation of the Adani Aarogyam Mandir, a 2,000-bed world-class medical institute in New Town. Half of the beds in this hospital will be dedicated to those who cannot afford quality medical care.
But while we build for Bengal's future, we must also honor what makes Bengal timeless, and that is its gods, its literature, its architecture, its festivals, and its extraordinary cultural confidence. It is therefore our privilege to support the revitalization of the iconic Kumartuli Ghat, build a curated Durga Puja program to celebrate Bengal's artists and take them to audiences across the world, and support the conservation of the historic Writers' Building.
So my dear friends, as I start to wrap up, let me take you back 30 years to when I started my journey with the Mundra port. Mundra in the west was to become my first karmabhumi. Today, with the same humility and sense of responsibility, it is my prayer to Ma that Bengal in the east becomes my second karmabhumi.
Not because Bengal must become another Gujarat, but because Bengal must become the strongest version of Bengal itself, drawing upon its geography, its intellect, its industrial legacy, and its historic ability to awaken the nation.
Whether it be Martin, Vidyasagar, or Tagore, or Purba, Paschim, Uttar, Dakshin.
That, my friends, is the India we must build. And as we imagine the new India, confident, fearless, and awake to its possibilities, let me end by invoking Gurudev Rabindranath Tagore's timeless prayer for our nation. His golden words were written in Bengali. Allow me to share their spirit through a Hindi rendering.
Bharat tere tukde honge hazaar... Hey Ma, jag Ma, jag Ma.
Thank you, Jai Hind.
