Adani group announces Rs 2,000 crore donation for building at least 20 schools across the country. The first ‘Adani GEMS School of Excellence’ will come up in Lucknow in the academic year 2025-26. In these schools, 30 per cent seats in CBSE curriculum will be free for under-served and deserving children. Earlier this month, Adani had committed to spending Rs 10,000crore on social causes when his younger son Jeet got married. The Adani Foundation currently operates in 6,769 villages across 19 states. It is empowering and enriching the lives of children, women, youth, and marginalised communities in the core areas of education, health and nutrition, sustainable livelihoods, climate action, and community development, the group said in a statement. The statement said the partnership plans to develop a scalable, affordable and sustainable model for quality education for students across India. It said the Adani-GEMS schools will benefit from a global curriculum combined with the best of Indian study boards.
