Adani urges India's rating agencies to broaden lens on infrastructure risk

Billionaire Gautam Adani urged India's credit-rating agencies on Monday to develop broader analytical frameworks for infrastructure projects, arguing that conventional models can underestimate the economic and strategic value of large platforms that create new markets and industrial ecosystems.

Speaking at the CareEdge Group Annual Summit in Mumbai, the Adani Group chairman said India did not need lower credit standards but "wider lenses" to assess infrastructure whose value extends beyond the cash flows of a single asset.

"India does not need lower standards.

India needs wider lenses," Adani said, calling on CareEdge to develop what he described as the world's first comprehensive credit framework for "integrated platform infrastructure." The remarks come as India accelerates investment in ports, renewable energy, power transmission, digital infrastructure and manufacturing as it seeks to build a more developed economy by 2047.

Adani argued that conventional credit models, often bu