Adani Group to Sponsor Schooling of Children of Deceased in Odisha Train Accident
NEW DELHI, June 4: The Adani group head billionaire Gautam Adani on Sunday offered to sponsor free school education to children who lost parents in the Odisha train mishap, the country’s deadliest in decades, involving two passenger and a goods train on Friday evening.
In a tweet, Mr Adani, who heads a conglomerate that spans ports to energy, commodities, airports and data centres, said it was a joint responsibility of all to support the victims and their families and give a better tomorrow to the children.
“We are all deeply disturbed by the train accident in Odisha. We have decided that the Adani Group will take care of the school education of the innocents who have lost their parents in this accident. It is the joint responsibility of all of us to support the victims and their families and give a better tomorrow to the children,” he said in a tweet in Hindi. The accident had left 275 dead and over a 1,000 injured, many of them critically.
(Manas Dasgupta)
