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Adani's Talabira coal mine: Communities resist being displaced for the second time in 70 years https://www.adaniwatch.org/talabira_project_story_3 Ayaskant Das Jun 01, 2022 In the Indian state of Odisha, hundreds of families are resisting dispossession and displacement by a sprawling coal mine. The Talabira II and III project is being developed by an Adani company. Many of the people in the path of the rapidly expanding excavations live in a state of anxiety because they have yet to be offered adequate compensation. 

‘Modi’s Rockefeller’: Gautam Adani and the concentration of power in India Financial Times  NOVEMBER 13 2020  https://www.ft.com/content/474706d6-1243-4f1e-b365-891d4c5d528b 

Since Mr Modi came into office, Mr Adani’s net worth has increased by about 230 per cent to more than $26bn as he won government tenders and built infrastructure projects across the country.

But as New Delhi accelerates its privatisation drive to offset the severe economic shock of the coronavirus pandemic, Mr Adani’s mushrooming empire has become a focus of criticism for those who believe that capital is being concentrated in the hands of a few favoured corporate titans at the expense of India’s middle class.

Some argue the concentration of economic power in family-run conglomerates is a way to fast-track India’s economic development, like the chaebol did for postwar South Korea. But critics say the rapid consolidation of state assets is creating monopolies and stifling competition.

“Is India going to move towards the east Asian model or the Russian model? So far the tendency looks towards the latter [more] than the former,” says Rohit Chandra, assistant professor of public policy at the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi. “It’s not clear whether India’s concentration of capital will lead to the long-term benefit of Indian consumers.” 

After Months Of Protest, ‘Adani’ Tag Removed From Airport Name Boards  BUSINESSINDIA  Sep 12, 2021   https://odishabytes.com/after-months-of-protest-adani-tag-removed-from-airport-name-boards/ 

Social activist Dilraj Alva had taken up the issue with airport authorities contending that there was no provision to change the name, as per the agreement for operations and maintenance of the airport.

After the terms of agreement were revealed through an RTI reply, a legal notice was served in March this year to Airports Authority of India (AAI) and MIA director questioning the ‘Adani’ tag attached to the name boards. The legal battle waged for some months before the social activists’ stand was vindicated. Changes have been made in MIA’s official Facebook and Twitter accounts also.

Adani Group had taken over Mangaluru, Lucknow and Ahmedabad airports from AAI late last year and Mumbai in July 2021.