Roshni Nadar tops the list of the richest women in India. Here are others – business news


Roshni Nadar Malhotra of HCL Technologies, Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw of Biocon and Leena Gandhi Tewari of USV are among the richest business women in India, according to the ‘Kotak Wealth Hurun – Leading Wealthy Women’. Roshni Nadar was ranked first on the 2020 Kotak Wealth Hurun Rich Women List and Mazumdar-Shaw was ranked second. She is also the richest woman on the list she made herself.

“One of the defining developments in the last two decades is the great strides that women have made as creators of wealth. The Kotak Wealth Hurun – Leading Wealthy Women 2020 report reveals an interesting and inspiring trend of more and more pioneering women leading the way and writing success stories in a wide variety of industries, spanning cities and towns across India. For India to achieve its goal of being a $ 5 trillion economy by 2025, women will continue to play a crucial role as wealth creators to achieve that goal, ”said Oisharya Das, Executive Director of Wealth Management at Kotak Mahindra Bank, it’s a statement. statement.

This year’s edition is based on women’s net worth as of September 30, 2020 and focuses on women who take an active role in their family business, entrepreneurs and professionals. The report is a data-driven attempt to understand wealth creation among Indian women and celebrate the success of India’s top 100 business men, women and men. The source of wealth includes both inherited and own. “The average wealth of the women on this list is approximately Rs 2,725 million. The threshold for classification is Rs 100 million. Eight American billionaires are on the list, while 38 have wealth of 1 billion rupees or more, ”the report says.

Here are the 10 richest women from the 2020 Kotak-Hurun Rich Women list:

1. Roshni Nadar from HCL Technologies

Net wealth: Rs 54,850 crore

2. Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw from Biocon

Net wealth: Rs 36,600 crore

3. Leena Gandhi Tewari from USV

Net Wealth: Rs 21,340 crore

Company: USV

4. Nilima Motaparti from Divi’s Laboratories

Net worth: Rs 18,620 crore

5. Radha Vembu from Zoho

Net wealth: Rs 11,590 crore

Company: Zoho

6. Jayshree Ullal from Arista Networks

Net wealth: Rs 10,220 crore

7. Renu Munjal of Hero FinCorp

Net wealth: Rs 8,690 crore

8. Malika Chirayu Amin from Alembic

Net Wealth: Rs 7,570 crore

9. Anu Aga and Meher Pudumjee from Thermax

Net wealth: Rs 5,850 crore

10. Falguni Nayar and family

Net worth: Rs 5410 crore

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