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The COVID-19 pandemic that has begun to affect the economic sector has begun to move. Including for the Indian economy, which is said to be a country whose growth exceeds the UK.
Quoted by Forbes, there was a drop in share prices and the rupee weakened. However, the wealth of India’s richest people has risen to $ 25 billion to hit $ 800 billion.
This increase in the number of assets was caused by Gautam Adani’s skyrocketing wealth. This year he managed to occupy the first position of richest person in India with a total wealth of US $ 150 billion or about Rp 2,250 trillion. (exchange rate of 15,000).
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Next up is Mukesh Ambani who is the owner of Reliance Industries, an oil and gas company for telecommunications. Mukesh has assets of up to $ 88 billion, this figure is 5% down from the previous year. Adani and Ambani now account for 30% of India’s total wealth.
Then there is also Radhakishan Damani who is a DMart supermarket entrepreneur. It occupies the third position and its total wealth reaches 27.6 billion dollars. After that is Cyrus Poonawalla who occupies the fourth position with total assets of $ 21.5 billion.
There are new faces classified as India’s richest such as Falguni Nayar, a former banker who has now managed to become India’s richest woman with the fashion company Nykaa. Then the ethnic clothing manufacturer Ravi Modi and the shoemaker Rafique Malik.
Also, there is Rakesh Jhunjhunwala who is the family circle of the owner Bajaj. Rakesh is also referred to as the Warren Buffet of India.
There is also Anand Mahindra who owns an electric SUV business. Then Vijay Shekhar Sharma who owns One97 Communications and the fintech company Paytm.
(kil / eds)
