To make the payment, the new firm would reportedly borrow $17bn-a large sum considering that publicly traded rivals like Accenture and TCS have low debts.

据报道，为了支付这笔款项，新公司将借入170亿美元--考虑到埃森哲和塔塔咨询服务公司等上市竞争对手的低负债，这是一笔不小的金额。

Among big Indian firms, only Mr Adani's battered businesses and two IT giants caught up in the global tech crunch, Infosys and TCS, did worse.

在印度大公司中，只有阿达尼遭受重创的企业和陷入全球科技危机的两家 IT 巨头 Infosys 和 TCS 的表现更差。