(Priyanka Gupta, Intern Journalist): Mukesh Ambani, Chairman and Managing Director of Reliance Industries (RIL), is India’s richest person on Forbes list for the 13th consecutive year. He has a net worth of $ 88.7 billion. His company RIL is the largest company in the country by market capitalization.
Interestingly, despite the coronavirus epidemic, the wealth of the 100 wealthiest Indians has seen an increase of 14 percent. According to Forbes, his wealth has reached a level of $ 517.5 billion.
Reliance has a big hand in increasing Mukesh Ambani’s wealth. Recently, many big investors of the world have invested in Reliance Industries. Giants like Facebook and Google invested $ 20 billion in the Jio platform. Apart from this, many well-known equity funds have also poured money into Reliance Retail.
Adani Group Chairman Gautam Adani has emerged as the second-largest Dhankuber in the country in the Forbes list. He has assets of $ 25.2 billion. After this, Shiv Nadar, chairman of HCL Technologies, is at number three with assets of $ 20.4 billion.
The rest of the top 10 ranks were Radhakishan Damani ($ 15.4 billion), Hinduja brothers ($ 12.8 billion), Cyrus Poonawala ($ 11.5 billion), Palonji Mistry ($ 11.4 billion), Uday Kotak ($ 11.3 billion), Godrej family ($ 11 billion) and Lakshmi Mittal. ($ 10.3 billion).
Many new names are also included in this list of Forbes. It includes Sanjeev Bikchandani, the co-founder of Info Edge, and Nitin Kamat and Nikhil Kamat, co-founders of Jirodha Broking.