Mukesh Ambani son of Dhirubhai Ambani has had the title of the richest man in India for several years, withholding $101.5 Billion in his pocket according to Forbes.
He is making his net worth grow well because of Reliance Industries, one of India’s most lucrative corporations, as well as the country’s largest publicly traded firm by market capitalization and sales.
Gautam Adani the second person on this list is the only Indian to establish five firms of INR 1 lakh crore.
According to the study, the Adani group has a total market capitalization of INR 9 lakh crore, with all listed firms valued at more than a lakh crore except Adani Power.
Let’s meet the richest billionaires in India.
#1 | Mukesh Ambani
NET WORTH: 101.5 BILLION
IDENTIFIED AS: MANAGING DIRECTOR & CHAIRMAN, RELIANCE INDUSTRIES
RESIDENCE: MUMBAI, INDIA
Mukesh is a successful Indian business person, and the managing director (MD), chairman, and also the largest stockholder of his company Reliance Industries Ltd.
(RIL) is listed in Fortune Global 500 company and India’s most profitable group by market cap that functions in natural resources, energy, retail, petrochemicals, telecommunications, and textiles.
#2 | Gautam Adani
NET WORTH: 72.3 BILLION
IDENTIFIED AS: FOUNDER, ADANI GROUP
RESIDENCE: AHMEDABAD, INDIA
He is an Indian billionaire industrialist who is the chairman and founder of the Adani Group.
As of October 2020, according to Forbes, his family’s net worth is valued to be roughly $25.2 billion.
#3 | Shiv Nadar
NET WORTH: 31.7 BILLION
IDENTIFIED AS: FOUNDER OF SSN COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING, & FOUNDER OF HCL TECHNOLOGIES
RESIDENCE: DELHI, INDIA
He is an Indian billionaire industrialist and also the founder & chairman of Shiv Nadar Foundation and HCL Technologies Limited.
HCL, an Indian multinational information technology (IT) services and consulting organization settled in Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India.
#4 | Radhakishan Damani
NET WORTH: 29.4 BILLION
IDENTIFIED AS: FOUNDER OF DMART
RESIDENCE: MUMBAI, INDIA
He is an Indian billionaire businessman and a successful investor.
He established Avenue Supermarts Limited, (DMart) in 2002, an Indian chain of huge market stores in India, with its very first branch in Powai’s Hiranandani Gardens.
It is a Mumbai-based retailer serving low-cost consumer products.
#5 | Savitri Jindal
NET WORTH: 18.5 BILLION
IDENTIFIED AS: CHAIRMAN OF JINDAL STEEL & POWER LIMITED
RESIDENCE: HARYANA, INDIA
She is a businesswoman from India who has worked as Jindal Steel & Power Limited Chairman.
Jindal Steels is India’s third-largest steel maker.
Amazingly, Savitri Jindal is India’s wealthiest woman, and 2016’s 16th-richest Indian, worth over $4.0 billion; she was also 2016’s 453rd-richest person in the world.
#6 | Cyrus Poonawlla
NET WORTH: 18.2 BILLION
IDENTIFIED AS: FOUNDER OF SERUM INSTITUTE OF INDIA
RESIDENCE: MAHARASTRA, INDIA
He is also known as “Vaccine King of India”.
He was also considered as the seventh richest soul in the Healthcare Billionaires list released in 2020.
He is the person fulfilling the necessity of vaccines in many of the nations through his company Serum Institute of India, is an Indian biotechnology and pharmaceuticals company.
#7 | Lakshmi Mittal
NET WORTH: 17.6 BILLION
IDENTIFIED AS: OWNER OF KARRICK LIMITED, CO-OWNER OF QUEENS PARK RANGERS F.C. & CHAIRMAN & CEO OF ARCELOR MITTAL
RESIDENCE: LONDON, UNITED KINDOM
He is the chairman and CEO of ArcelorMittal, the world’s largest steelmaking company.
In 2005, Mittal was listed as the world’s third-richest man, making him the first Indian resident to be ranked in the top 10 on the annual list of the richest people in the world by Forbes.
In 2007, Mittal was deemed the wealthiest Asian citizen in Europe. He was ranked by Forbes as the 6th richest person in the world in 2011.
#8 | Pallonji Mistry
NET WORTH: 16.9 BILLION
IDENTIFIED AS: CHAIRMAN OF SHAPOORJI PALLONJI GROUP & INDIAN BILLIONAIRE CONSTRUCTION MOGUL
RESIDENCE: MUMBAI, INDIA
He is a construction mogul and chairman of Shapoorji Pallonji Group, an Indian syndicate firm in Mumbai, India.
He had $11.1 billion of net worth in April 2020 according to Forbes.
He governs the 155-year-old Shapoorji Pallonji Group a Mumbai-headquartered construction and engineering firm.
#9 | Kumar Birla
NET WORTH: 15.9 BILLION
IDENTIFIED AS: CHAIRMAN OF VODAFONE IDEA LIMITED & ADITYA BIRLA GROUP
RESIDENCE: MUMBAI, INDIA
The Indian billionaire industrialist, Kumar Mangalam Birla, is the chairman of the Aditya Birla Group, one of India’s largest conglomerates.
He is also the Chancellor of the Birla Institute of Technology and Science and the President of the Delhi Indian Institute of Technology and the Ahmedabad Indian Institute of Management.
#10 | Uday Kotak
NET WORTH: 15.7 BILLION
IDENTIFIED AS: FOUNDER, CEO & MD OF KOTAK MAHINDRA BANK; & CHAIRMAN OF IL&FS
RESIDENCE: MUMBAI, INDIA
He is an Indian banker, and Managing Director (MD), and also serving as the Executive-Vice chairman of Kotak Mahindra Bank, an Indian private sector bank headquartered in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India.
Uday Kotak left his family’s trade business to launch a financial company in 1985, which he later converted into a bank in 2003.
