Describing the Odisha train tragedy as ‘deeply distressing’, Billionaire and Industrialist Gautam Adani on Sunday offered to take responsibility for the school education of the children who lost their parents in the worst train accident in decades.
In a tweet, Adani, who heads a conglomerate that spans ports to energy, commodities, airports and data centres, said it is 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.
More than 290 people were reportedly killed and about 900 injured in a horrific train crash in Odisha near Balasore, involving the Bengaluru-Howrah Superfast Express, the Shalimar-Chennai Central Coromandel Express and a goods train, officials said on Saturday.
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