Top 10 richest person in India
Top Ten Richest People in India – 2017 List
10 – Gautam Adani (Net Worth: $7.0 Billion)
After a few years he come back his home and he
and his older brother starting a another own plastic factory. Now He also proved
himself to be very successful and to top it off Gautam began importing raw
materials to make plastic which earned them even more money. Many people have
stated that it is very risky move work quitting a diamond manufacturing
business to get into plastic but Gautam is as a risk taker and considering he
is a multi-billionaire.
Although he
was sell diamonds and plastic. Gautam makes the majority of his own company
– Adani Group. As
the founder and chairman of Adani Group he currently integrates coal mining and
gas distribution. He being a successful businessman tycoon over his 30+ years.
He valued Net Worth $ 7.0 Billion and he has gone on to employ thousands of
people and make tens of billions of dollars. he is a first-generation business
man.
#9 – Kumar Birla (Net Worth: $7.8 Billion)
Kumar Birla was born in 1967 in Rajasthan. And
he hails from a family that has some of the richest history in all of India. His
childhood, Kumar would travel from one place to other place but he mainly
residing in Kolkata and Mumbai. After some time he wanted to continue his
family’s line of work by majoring in accounting. He went from the University of
Bombay in Chartered Accounting for receiving a Bachelor of Commerce Degree and
then he proceeded to obtain an MBA from London Business School.
Aditya Birla father of Kumar Birla was the Chairman and CEO of
the multi-billion dollar company Aditya
Birla Group which is one of the biggest conglomerate groups in
all of India. Kumar Birla’s father Aditya Birla passed away suddenly in 1995
when Kumar was only 28 years old. And then Kumar take over the company and
while fellow members of the board had their worries about Kumar, he has since convert
the $2 Billion company into a $40 Billion. His own as business man skills and
all around effective leader, Kumar began expanding the company to earn revenue
abroad, expanding his business to countries like Thailand and Egypt. His own outstanding
skills and knowledge, he improve/turned/convert his father’s business into the
third largest group in India.
Now in this time Kumar Birla has been elected as the new
Chairman of the Board of Governors in Delhi.
#8 – Cyrus Poonawalla (Net Worth: $8.5 Billion)
Cyrus Poonawalla was born in 1945. And he has
one of the most badass last names of all time. Cyrus’s relation who’s family is
very serious about horse racing. They have own several farms with their main
farm being called Poonawalla
Stud Farms. While Cyrus is an advocate for horse racing, he felt
that horse racing wasn’t going to more successful in your life. And then he
decided to get into the field of medicine and went on to study at the Brihan
Maharashtra College of Commerce and graduated in 1966 instead of Horse racing.
He also get another 20 years that he would finally earn a PhD. During these 20
years he has spent of his time producing vaccines to help protect children from
several lethal diseases.
Since he completed his PhD he has gone on to
help create cures for children all around the world. While that earned him fame
and he received the Padma Shri award for his contributions. He is the chairman
of the Poonawalla Group companies
in India. Biotech companies are the Serum
Institute which is the largest producer of vaccines in India.
#7 – Lakshmi Mittal (Net Worth: $11.2 Billion)
Mittal was born in the
year 1950 and his father is Mohan Lal Mittal. He getting a Bachelor of Commerce degree from
the University of Calcutta then he followed his father’s footsteps to begin his
very own steel factor in Indonesia. Now he became a very successful prominent businessman of the steel
company Nippon
Denro Ispat. He is the most valuable
person then he has been one of India’s leading contributors to rolling mill for
sheet stills. He resides in India he does business all around the world, although
including both the United Kingdom and the United States. He is the CEO of Arcelor Mittal which is based in the United Kingdom and he is considered to be
the largest steelmaking company in the world. He valued in this time is Net
worth $ 11.2 Billion.
#6 – Godrej Family (Net Worth: $11.4 Billion)
The Godrej Group is a deals
with consumer products, furniture, security, industrial engineering,
agricultural products and real estate. I
think sometimes this diverse can’t be managed by a single person so instead it
is managed by three members from the Godrej family. The original founders of
this Godrej Family group are Ardeshir Godrej and his brother Pirojsha Burjorji
Godrej. Together they helped bring this business for three men two whom are
brothers and one who is their cousin whose names are Adi Godrej, Nadir Godrej
and Jamshyd Godrej. On their own they are worth billions of dollars but he
considered a joint company they are all together worth more than $11 Billion.
The company started as a business selling locks. In 1897, in the
then-Bombay (Mumbai), crime/theft cases rate was beginning to reach an all-time
high. Ardeshir Godrej felt if he sold locks he become successful as people were
becoming worried more and more each day about being robbed. Unfortunately
Ardeshir the business was of course a success is died before being able to have
children. His brother and business partner Pirojsha decided to take over the
company as his own.
#5– Shiv Nadar (Net Worth: $12.9 Billion)
This company is very successful
in there business. His own company began creating calculators and then selling
them off to the Indian market with their company they called Microcomp. After
that they started making a lot of money, Although, Nadar decided to go on to
create his own business called HCL Technologies. He valued
in this time Net worth $ 12.9 million.
#4 – Pallonji Mistry (Net Worth: $14.7 Billion)
#3 – Azim Premji (Net Worth: $16.5 Billion)
Azim Premji was born in
1945 and his father is Mohamed Premji. In the same year his loving father
created a business that manufactured vegetable products in India. Azim wasn’t interested
in the business as he was more interested in engineering. When he got older
then he moved to the United States to attend Stanford University. It was here
that he completed a Bachelor’s of Science in Electrical Engineering degree.
Azim’s father due to health problems right after his education ended. Azim come
back his home and rather than continuing in the field of his choice he
continued manufacturing vegetable products at his father’s company. When he started
to expand the business by also manufacturing soap and hydraulic cylinders.
After 20 years in the
vegetable business he began to recognize how important technology was becoming.
He decided to re-brand his father’s company by giving it a new name with Wipro
and started manufacturing microcomputers instead. And after some times he
proved to be a massive success as Wipro is considered one
of the fastest growing businesses in India’s history.
He valued net worth of
more than $15 billion and has joined other famous billionaires like Bill Gates
in pledging to give away the majority of their money to people who are in need
of assistance.
#2 – Dilip Shanghvi (Net Worth: $17.5 Billion)
Dilip Shanghvi was born
in 1955 in the small town of Amreli which is located in the state of Gujarat
India. He spent a long time his life going to several schools to earn his
education, including J. J. Ajmera High School and Bhawanipur Education Society
College. Afterwards he attended the University of Calcutta where he would earn
a Bachelor of Commerce degree.
Dilip joined his father
in Kolkata to help him in his drug company. And he would continue helping his
father for many years until he saved up enough money to run his own company. Dilip
decided that now he would make more money manufacturing his own drugs and
selling them, rather than just selling other people’s drugs. Although he opened
his own company called Sun
Pharmaceutical. This company quickly
went on to become a very successful business revenue, with Dilip earning the
majority of his wealth due to its success. This time it is the largest drug
company in all of India. Dilip Shanghvi valued net worth $ 17.5 Billion..
#1 – Mukesh Ambani (Net Worth: $22.3 Billion)
Mukesh Ambani is not only the richest man in India but he is
also the richest man in all of Asia. He born in Yemen in 1957 to parents
Dhirubhai and Kokilaben Ambani. Mukesh is interested in studying chemicals.
After he graduated from high school he went on to study at the Institute of
Chemical Technology and then he completed his Bachelor of Engineering degree in
Chemical Engineering. After receiving his degree he went on to study abroad in
the United States where he got completed his study to Stanford University. He
had enrolled for a Master of Business Administration degree but ended up
dropping out his study and come back to home in India and help his father start
up his own business.
Dhirubhai
Amani, Mukesh’s father, had applied for a license from the government to set up
his own polyester manufacturing plant in the year of 1980. The government
accepted his proposal and then they got into the polyester and petrochemical
business and set up their own plant in India. And this company was called Reliance
Infocomm Limited but now these days it is better known as Reliance
Communications Limited. It is considered one of the most valuable
companies in India’s history. Now these days the plant mainly deals with
petrochemicals in the oil and gas sector. Reliance is
so successful and Mukesh is such a good business man, he has gone on to receive
multiple awards from organizations all around the world. Now he stated a Jio
Phone Jio 4G sim and Jio Communication and this communication is very successful
with in a short period. He valued in this time net worth $ 22.3 Billion.
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