Gautam Adani Announces Dual Talent Initiatives at IIT-Dhanbad
Gautam Adani, who serves as the chairperson of the prominent Adani Group, unveiled two key initiatives at the Indian Institute of Technology (Indian School of Mines) in Dhanbad. These initiatives consist of a comprehensive annual internship program and the establishment of the Adani 3S Mining Excellence Centre.
“The first initiative is the Adani Annual Internships at IIT Dhanbad. We will offer 50 paid internships every year to third-year students meeting our merit and fitment criteria. Thereafter, a minimum of 25 percent of these interns will receive pre-employment offers to join us,” Adani said while speaking at the centenary celebrations of the institute.
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He stressed the group’s focus on innovation, saying, “We are not looking for colleagues who follow manuals. We are looking for innovators who will rewrite them. We will bring you our toughest problems. We welcome you if you have the drive to solve problems that the world says cannot be solved, but you are willing to take up.”
The second initiative, the Adani 3S Mining Excellence Centre, was described as a next-generation innovation hub. “This is not just a lab. It is an ecosystem where responsible mining, innovation, and industry-academia collaboration intersect,” Adani said. Equipped with metaverse labs, drone fleets, seismic sensing and precision blasting systems, the centre will also anchor a campus-wide hackathon each year.
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“Each year, the idea with the greatest potential to transform the sectors of mining, energy, and core infrastructure will be selected… And the Adani Group will support the winning idea it selects with funding, mentorship, and most importantly, real industry settings to prove the idea,” he adds.
Before outlining the new initiatives, Adani delivered a broader geopolitical and economic assessment. “We must first confront a sobering truth. The age of collaborative global trade and supply chains is collapsing,” he said, pointing to shrinking alliances and global institutions such as “NATO, the WTO, and the UN” being forced to rethink their frameworks.
He described today’s global context as an era of “narrative colonisation,” stating, “the very nations that plundered resources, enslaved continents, and burned fossil fuels for two centuries, now stand on moral platforms in foreign capitals.”
Adani said these countries “now want to dictate the pace and style of Bharat’s development,” calling it paradoxical that those who “heated the planet, now want to set the rules for how we must cool the planet.” Warning that India’s aspirations could be de-legitimised, he said, “if we do not control our own narrative, our growth will be criminalised.” He cited the 2025 COP-30 downgrade, noting that “many current ESG models are designed to penalise the developing world.”
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Sharing his experiences with the Carmichael project in Australia and the 30GW renewable energy park at Khavda in Gujarat, Adani said, “When we build coal for the responsibility and dignity of our countrymen, we are criticised. When we build renewables at a global scale, our success becomes invisible.”