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NEW DELHI: Industrialist Gautam Adani has added more billions to his personal wealth in 2021 than 19 other Indian billionaires together!
Among the 20 Indian billionaires on Bloomberg Billionaire Index, Adani's fortunes have risen by $35.2 billion in 2021 so far, compared with a $24.5 billion addition in the combined wealth of 19 other Indian billionaires.
Worth $69 billion as of today, Adani is trailing the richest Indian Mukesh Ambani ($77 billion) by only a few billions now.
Other than Adani, eight other Indian billionaires have added $1 billion or more to their personal wealth in 2021. They are Wipro's Azim Premji, whose wealth increased by $6.07 billion to $31.40 billion. Savitri Jindal of OP Jindal group added $4 billion to her wealth, while Lakshmi Mittal added $3.93 billion. Kumar Birla's wealth jumped by $3.25 billion to $10.1 billion. Others included Dilip Shanghvi of Sun Pharma (1.66 billion), Radhakishan Damani of DMart ($1.6 billion), Pankaj Patel of Cadila ($1.44 billion) and Rahul Bajaj of Bajaj Auto ($1.18 billion). Uday Kotak is the only Indian billionaire to have lost $1 billion or more.