Airtel Growth Plan: Bharti Airtel takes a big bet of ₹ 20,000 crore! Chairman Sunil Mittal told the 3 biggest ‘growth engines’ of the future. – ..

Bharti Airtel Annual Report 2026: Indian telecom sector giant Bharti Airtel is no longer limited to being just a mobile network provider, but is preparing to become the biggest digital powerhouse of the future. After making a huge investment of over ₹3.3 lakh crore in the last decade to create a strong digital infrastructure within the country, the company has now changed its direction.

According to the report of news agency PTI, in the annual report of Bharti Airtel released late on Saturday night, company chairman Sunil Bharti Mittal has revealed the future roadmap. Mittal says that the three biggest engines of the company’s next phase of growth will be financial services (Airtel Money), data center (Nxtra) and cloud (Airtel Cloud), which also includes the announcement of a big investment of up to ₹ 20,000 crore in Airtel Money.

3 biggest pillars (Growth Engines) of Airtel’s mega-growth

1. Financial Services: Airtel Money gets NBFC green signal

The biggest and important information that has come out in the annual report is that ‘Airtel Money’ has got the license from the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) to operate as a Non-Deposit Taking Non-Banking Financial Company (NBFC).

• What will be the benefit: According to Sunil Mittal, this will prove to be a revolutionary step to increase the scope of ‘financial inclusion’ in rural and remote areas of the country. The company is fully prepared to invest huge capital of up to ₹ 20 thousand crore in this vertical in the coming years as per the requirement.

2. Data center business: ‘Nxtra’ on track to build 1 gigawatt capacity

In this era of digital data, Airtel is expanding its data center business. ‘next’ is increasing rapidly.

• Budget and Capacity: Recently, 100 crore dollars (about ₹9,500 croreAfter raising funds of Rs 1,000 crore, the company is working on the target of creating a massive capacity of 1 gigawatt (1 GW) in the next few years. Nextra is getting tremendous business support due to the rapid digitalization in India, increasing trend of cloud and data localization rules of the government.

3. Airtel Cloud: More than 24 mega-deals locked in the initial phase itself

The chairman also appeared very excited about the company’s third biggest growth engine i.e. ‘Airtel Cloud’.

• World Class Service, Low Cost: Sunil Mittal said that it has received excellent response from the market in the initial phase itself. It is providing world class cloud services hosted and stored within the country to Indian companies at very affordable rates. Airtel has won more than 24 big customer deals in the initial phase itself.

Government’s long-term tax exemption policies will provide great support

Chairman Sunil Mittal highly appreciated the long-term policies of the Government of India supporting digital infrastructure, cloud and Artificial Intelligence (AI).

• Big relief in tax: The long-term tax exemption given by the government to promote data centers and digital infrastructure is continuously encouraging capital investment in the corporate world, which will strengthen the entire tech ecosystem.

• Huge investment of ₹18 lakh crore: According to government and industry estimates, the total investment in the data center sector this year alone is expected to cross the historic figure of $20,000 crore (over ₹18 lakh crore) due to increasing data localization in the country, with Airtel playing a leading role.