Due to the boom in Indian stock markets, the combined wealth of India’s 100 richest people in the 2021 Forbes list rose to a record level of $ 775 billion. This year, the wealth of more than 80 percent of the rich people has increased. 61 billionaires have accumulated wealth of $1 billion or more in the past 12 months. Mukesh Ambani has been placed at the top spot among the 100 richest Indians in the 2021 Forbes list. He has remained India’s richest person since 2008 and his current net worth is estimated at $92.7 billion. Ambani recently revealed his plans to enter the renewable energy sector with a $10 billion investment by Reliance Industries.
Gautam Adani is at second place in the list of Forbes.
In the second place in the list of Forbes is infrastructure veteran Gautam Adani. This is the third year in a row that he has been kept at this position. Adani, the highest gainer in percentage and dollar terms, has seen a three-fold increase in wealth. His wealth has increased from $25.2 billion to $74.8 billion. This has happened because of the jump in the price of the shares of all their listed companies.
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Shiv Nadar, founder of software giant HCL Technologies, ranked third.
With $31 billion, Shiv Nadar is the founder of software giant HCL Technologies. During the last one year, his wealth has increased by $ 10.6 billion. Retail veteran Radhakishan Damani has secured the fourth position with a net worth of $29.4 billion. His net worth stood at $15.4 billion last year. His supermarket chain Avenue Supermart has opened 22 new stores in the financial year 2020-21. In fifth place is Cyrus Poonawalla, the founder of Serum Institute of India, who has a net worth of $ 19 billion.
Six new faces joined in.
This year’s list has 6 new faces, half of which are from the booming chemical sector. These include Ashok Bub (ranked 93, $2.3 billion), whose Clean Science and Technology was listed in July, Deepak Mehta (ranked 97, $2.05 billion) of Deepak Nitrate and Yogesh Kothari (ranked 100, $1.94) of Alkyl Amines Chemicals. Billion). Apart from these, Dr. Lal Pathlabs Executive Chairman Arvind Lal (87 rank, $2.55 billion) has joined this list for the first time.
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