The global economy may be slowing, but India’s wealthiest have become even wealthier this year. The Forbes 2022 list of India’s 100 wealthiest is finally here, and according to it, the combined wealth of India’s 100 wealthiest has increased by $25 billion to a whopping $800 billion. The top ten wealthiest Indians are worth a total of $385 billion.
According to Fobes, the gain was largely due to a record-breaking feat by infrastructure tycoon Gautam Adani, who changed the pecking order at the top for the first time since 2008. Adani announced a $100 billion investment over the next decade, 70% of which will be in green energy, making him the year’s biggest gainer in both percentage and dollar terms.India’s top 10 richest
Gautam Adani
Gautam Adani, chairman of Adani Group is the richest person on the list, with a net worth of $150 billion (Rs 1,211,460.11 crore). Adani is also world’s third richest billionaire.
Mukesh Ambani
Following Adani on the list is Mukesh Ambani, chairman of Reliance Industries, who has a net worth of $88 billion (Rs 710,723.26 crore), a 5% decrease from last year. Adani and Ambani now account for 30% of the total wealth of India’s 100 richest people.
Radhakishan Damani
Radhakishan Damani, the country’s retailing tycoon and owner of the DMart supermarket chain, is the third richest Indian, worth $27.6 billion (Rs 222,908.66 crore). He entered the top three for the first time, despite a 6% drop in net worth.
Cyrus Poonawalla
Cyrus Poonawalla, Chairman of the world’s largest vaccine manufacturing company, Serum Institute of India, has become the country’s fourth richest man after another year of record profits from Covid-19 vaccines. He is worth $21.5 billion, or Rs 173,642.62 crore.
Shiv Nadar
Shiv Nadar, Chairman Emeritus of HCL Technologies, who is worth $21.4 billion or Rs 172,834.97 crore, donated $662 million to education-related causes this year and saw the largest drop in net worth in absolute terms.
Savitri Jindal
Savitri Jindal, India’s richest woman and the Chairperson Emeritus of the O.P. Jindal Group, is the only woman billionaire on the Forbes list. Her net worth is $16.4 billion, or Rs 132,452.97 crore in Indian rupees.
Dilip Shanghvi
Sun Pharmaceuticals’ founder’s son Dilip Sanghvi is worth $15.5 billion or 125,184.21 crore. He is the central board member of the Reserve Bank of India.
Hinduja Brothers
Srichand, Gopichand, Prakash, and Ashok Hinduja control the Hinduja Group, which was founded by Parmanand Deepchand Hinduja in 1914 and is worth $15.2 billion or Rs 122,761.29 crore.
Kumar Birla
The chairman of the textiles-to-cement conglomerate Aditya Birla Group has net worth $15 billion or Rs 121,146.01 crore. Birla inherited the group at the age of 28 when his father, Aditya Birla, died in 1995.
Bajaj Family
The family is worth $14.6 billion or Rs 117,915.45 crore, and owns a network of 40 companies under the Bajaj Group. Jamnalal Bajaj founded the 96-year-old family-run business in Mumbai in 1926.