Despite Pandemic, the wealth of India’s nobles increased by $ 517.5 billion.

On Oct 8, 2020

New Delhi: The country’s economic growth registered a 24% decline in the June ended quarter due to the Corona pandemic. Despite this adverse situation, according to Forbes India, half of the 100 richest in the country collectively increased their wealth by 14% to $ 517.5 billion. Mukesh Ambani, ranked number one among the list The Ambani’s wealth increased by 73% in the last 13 years. During this period, it raised its net worth to $ 88.7 billion by raising 37.3 billion dollars. Reliance Industries raised more than $ 20 billion for the Jio platform.

On No. 2 this year is Infrastructure’s businessman Gautam Adani, who has increased his net worth to $ 25.2 billion. Amidst the epidemic and recession, Adani acquired a 74% stake in the Mumbai airport, the second busiest airport in the country.

Tech tycoon Shiv Nadar, who in July appointed his daughter Roshni Nadar Malhotra as chairman of HCL Technologies, jumped three places to number 3 with $ 20.4 billion as shares of India’s third largest tech firm.

Vaccine King Billionaire Cyrus Poonawala and Pharma entrepreneurs fared well with the global health crisis. Cyrus Poonawalla has joined the race to produce the COVID-19 vaccine, led by son Adar. Serum Institute of India has led Poonawalla’s assets rose by 26%, or $ 11.5 billion. The Biocon founder Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw has almost doubled to $ 4.6 billion.

Forbes India’s Top 100 list has 12 newcomers, few of them are-

· Infosys (India) cofounder Sanjeev Bicchandani,

· Zerodha Broking’s co founders Nitin and Nikhil Kamath

· Vinati Saraf, founder of Vinati Organics

· Arun Bharat Ram of SRF

· Chandrakant and Rajendra Gogri of Aarti Industries.

So far, 68,35,655 cases of COVID-19 have been reported in India, while in the last 24 hours after the death of 971 more people due to infection, the death toll has increased to 1,05,526 and 58,27,704 people are free from corona. Have been done.