Baramati, Dec. 28 -- Focusing on India's experience after Industrial Revolution, Adani Group chairman Gautam Adani on Sunday said that fears that mobile phones and digital technology would destroy jobs proved unfounded.

Speaking at the inauguration of Vidya Pratishthan's Sharad Pawar Centre of Excellence in Artificial Intelligence (CoE-AI) in Baramati, Adani noted that affordable smartphones and low-cost data empowered ordinary citizens and unlocked economic activity at the grassroots level.

He highlighted that between 1991 and 2024, India added over 230 million non-farm jobs, most of them created after the expansion of digital infrastructure. According to Adani, each industrial revolution has ultimately generated far more employment th...