The past year has proved challenging for India’s ‘wealth creators’ as Forbes’ 2019 list of business tycoons saw their total wealth dropping by 8 per cent.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi, in his Independence Day speech, had said that that the country’s wealth creators help in reducing poverty and deserve respect and encouragement.
The Forbes India Rich List 2019 showed industrialist Gautam Adani jumped 8 spots on the list to become the second richest India with a net worth of $15.7 billion while Reliance Industries chairman Mukesh Ambani maintained his numero uno spot with $51.4 billion.
Ashok Leyland owners Hinduja brothers stood third with a net worth of $15.6 billion, Shapoorji Pallonji Group’s Pallonji Mistry occupied the fourth spot with a $15 billion net worth, Kotak Mahindra Bank’s Uday Kotak was ranked fifth with $14.8 billion net worth followed by HCL Technologies‘ Shiv Nadar with a net worth of $14.4 billion.
The list saw six new debutants including Byju’s Founder and CEO, Byju Raveendran at no 72 with net wealth of $1.91 billion, Manohar Lal and Madhusudan Agarwal of Haldiram Snacks at no 86 with net worth of $1.7 billion, Rajesh Mehra of Jaquar, at no 95 with $1.5 billion net worth and Sandeep Engineer of Astral Poly Technik with $1.45 billion net worth.
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