IIM Calcutta, Adani Group announce scholarship to nurture future leaders
Press Trust of India | September 22, 2025 | 06:54 PM IST | 1 min read
Adani Accelerated Leadership Program will support six MBA students with a total endowment of Rs 1.62 crore over two years.
KOLKATA : The Adani Group on Monday announced a scholarship programme for students of IIM Calcutta, aiming to foster leadership talent and strengthen industry-academia collaboration. The announcement of the Adani Accelerated Leadership Program (AALP) followed the signing of an agreement in the presence of IIM Calcutta director Alok Kumar Rai.
The initiative will support six MBA students annually, with a total endowment of Rs 1.62 crore over two years, an official of the group said. The amount will be disbursed in two tranches of Rs 81 lakh each based on academic performance.
Welcoming the partnership, IIM Calcutta Dean (Development & External Relations) Sumanta Basu said, “This aligns our shared focus on leadership development, diversifying areas of activity, and collaborating in research.” Introducing the scholarship, Subhashrie R Venkatraj, senior VP (AALP intake), Adani Group, said this was aimed at nurturing an internal talent pool, which she termed “the key to success”.
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Students interacted with Adani group leaders during the event. Adani Airports CEO Arun Bansal advised students to remain “curious and humble”, while Promoter & Executive Director Sagar Adani said the group’s role was to “facilitate talent building, resulting in organisation building”.
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