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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 Cadi