Here we have a list of top ten people of India who are filthy rich.
1. Gautam Adani and family
Gautam Adani and his family are the second-richest people in India, with a combined fortune of $112.6 billion. Gautam Adani is the owner of Gujarat’s biggest port, Mundra. For instance, the Adani Group is involved in electricity production and transmission as well as real estate and commodities. Adani bought a 74% share in Mumbai International Airport, India’s second busiest airport, in September 2020. Abbot Point is a coal mine owned by Adani in Australia.
2. Mukesh Ambani
Mukesh Ambani, the wealthiest man in the world as of 2022, will have a fortune of $100.0 billion. His business interests include petrochemicals, oil and gas, retail, and telecommunications. Reliance’s debut of 4G services in the Indian telecom sector in 2016 sparked a pricing war, which resulted in the closure of multiple networks. It was during the COVID-19 shutdown period that Mukesh Ambani sold a third of Jio to Google and Facebook for almost $20 billion.
3. Shiv Nadar
Shiv Nadar, co-founder of HCL Technologies, is expected to be worth $28.7 billion by 2022, placing him third on the list of India’s wealthiest billionaires. With a yearly turnover of $102 billion, HCL Technologies has grown from a small calculator and microprocessor manufacturer in 1976 to one of India’s top software suppliers. More than 169,000 individuals are employed by HCL technologies in 50 countries. In 2020, when Shiv Nadar stepped down as CEO of HCL, his daughter took his place in the company’s leadership. Shiv Nadar is now serving as chairman emeritus. He is one of India’s most prominent philanthropists, having donated approximately $662 million to the Shiv Nadar Foundation to benefit educational causes.
4. Cyrus Poonawalla
In 2022, Cyrus Poonawalla will be the sixth wealthiest person in India with a net worth of $25.8 billion. As the world’s biggest vaccine manufacturer, Serum Institute of India, was created by him in 1966. More than 1.5 billion doses of flu, polio, and measles vaccinations are produced by the company each year. In addition to investing roughly $800 million in the construction of a new plant to produce Covid-19 vaccines, his son Adar serves as the CEO of Serum.
5. Radhakishan Damani
Radhakishan Damani has a net worth of $20.2 billion, making him the fourth wealthiest person in India. After Avenue Supermarket finished the I|PO in March 2017, he became the retail monarch of the nation. With just a single grocery in a Mumbai suburb, he got his start in retail in India. DMart now has more than 221 locations throughout the United States. Damani also has holdings in the tobacco company VST and the India Cements company. Radisson Blu Resort in Alibag, a popular coastal vacation spot near Mumbai, is owned by him.
6. Savitri Jindal and Family
Savitri Jindal and her family will have a net worth of $19.9 billion in 2022, making them the ninth wealthiest people in India. From electricity and cement to infrastructure and steel, the Jindal Group has a wide variety of activities. Savitri Jindal, the widow of Jindal Group founder Om Prakash Jindal, currently chairs the organization. After Om Prakash Jindal’s death in a helicopter accident in 2005, the group’s businesses were split among Om’s four sons, who succeeded him.
7. Lakshmi Mittal
Lakshmi Mittal, who is worth $182 billion, will be India’s sixth wealthiest person in 2022, according to Forbes. He is the CEO of ArcelorMittal, the world’s biggest steel and mining corporation, which generates $53.3 billion in income each year in production. An Essar Steel company that was formerly owned by billionaires Ravi Ruia and Shashi Shashi was bought by Nippon Steel and Arcelor in 2019. Lakshmi Mittal, Arcelor Mittal’s executive chairman, stepped down from the company’s CEO role when his son Aditya Mittal took over.
8. Kumar Birla
Kumar Birla has a net worth of $17.5 billion, making him the ninth wealthiest person in India. He is the chairman of the Aditya Birla Group, which generates $46 billion in sales under the moniker “the commodities king.” In addition to communications and financial services, the company has aluminium and cement holdings. A debt-laden company that combined with Idea Cellular and Vodafone India in 2018 saw its chairman Kumar Birla resign in August 2021.
9. Dilip Shanghvi
He will be the ninth-richest individual in the nation in 2022, with a fortune estimated at $16.3 billion. Sun Pharma, a manufacturer of psychiatric medications, was founded in 1983 with the help of $200 from his father. Today, the company has a sales of $4.5 billion, making it one of the largest pharmaceutical suppliers in the country. In 2014, Sun Pharma paid $4 billion for Ranbaxy Laboratories, one of several acquisitions that helped the company expand. Shanghvi has also made investments in oil & gas and renewable energy in the recent past.
10. Sunil Mittal and Family
Sunil Mittal, India’s tenth-wealthiest citizen, is worth $15.3 billion, making him the richest individual in the country. A first-generation entrepreneur, Sunil Bharti Mittal, is the owner of Bharti Airtel, India’s second biggest telecom business. As the CEO of Bharti Enterprises’ charitable arm, the Bharti Foundation, Mittal is well-known for his efforts to educate India.
