Gautam Adani earned Rs 1,002 cr a day in last one year; breaks into second spot in Hurun India Rich List
- ByAyushi Ray | October 1, 2021
Gautam Adani earned Rs 1,002 cr a day in last one year; breaks into second spot in Hurun India Rich List . Gautam Adani steered his way to number 2 spot with Rs 5,05 lakh crore in 2020-21 from Rs 1.4 lakh crore in the previous year. Adani and family earned a whopping Rs 1,002 crore a day in the last one year. The IIFL Wealth Hurun India Rich List has revealed the top 100 wealthiest people in the country. The cumulative wealth was up 51 percent, while average wealth increased by 25 percent. Adani’s Dubai-based brother Vinod Shantilal Adani and family are at Number 8 with net worth of Rs 1.31 lakh crore, up 21.2 percent from last year.
Gautam Adani replaced Chinese bottled water producer Zhong Shanshan from the number two spot in Asia’s richest person list, as per IIFL Wealth-Hurun India Rich List, 2021. Mukesh Ambani and family retained the numero uno position on the list with a net worth of Rs 7.18 lakh crore. According to IIFL Wealth-Hurun India Rich List 2021, India has 58 more billionaires in the last year taking the overall number of such people to 258. As many as 1,007 individuals across 119 cities have a net worth of Rs 1,000 crore, Hurun India said. India’s youngest billionaire is the 23-year-old co-founder of payments app BharatPe –Shaswat Nakrani.