Here is the list of top 10 powerful people of India 2019
Mukesh Ambani has been positioned the most powerful individual in the High and Mighty rundown since he’s India’s biggest wealth creator. With a market cap of Rs 8 lakh crore and marketable securities worth Rs 1.32 lakh crore, Mukesh Ambani’s Reliance Industries Limited (RIL) is India’s most valuable organization.
2. Kumar Mangalam Birla
Kumar Mangalam Birla: Because he has been steadily steering the Aditya Birla Group into a higher orbit, with group revenues touching $48.3 billion (Rs 3.3 lakh crore) from 14 different businesses.
3. Gautam Adani
Gautam Shantilal Adani (born 24 June 1962) is an Indian billionaire industrialist who is the chairman and founder of the Adani Group an Ahmedabad-based multinational conglomerate involved in port development and operations in India. Adani is the president of the Adani Foundation, which is primarily led by his wife, Priti Adani.
He founded the Adani Group in 1988 and diversified his business into resources, logistics, energy, agriculture, defence and aerospace, amongst others.
According to Forbes, his net worth is estimated to be around $8.7 billion as of August 2018.He has a 66% stake in Adani Ports & SEZ Limited, 75% stake in Adani Enterprises, 73% stake in Adani Power, 75% stake in Adani Transmission. In 2017, he was ranked as the 4th most powerful person in India by India Today.
4. Uday Kotak
Uday Kotak (born 15 March 1959) is an Indian billionaire banker, and the executive vice chairman and managing director of Kotak Mahindra Bank.
In early 1980s, while India was still a closed economy and economic growth was muted, Kotak decided to start out on his own, refusing a lucrative job option from a multinational. Over the next few years, he diversified his business into various areas of financial services, establishing a prominent presence in bills discounting, stockbroking, investment banking, car finance, life insurance and mutual funds.
On 22 March 2003, Kotak Mahindra Finance Ltd. became the first company in India’s corporate history to receive a banking license from Reserve Bank of India.
Forbes estimated his wealth to be $10.6 billion in 2018. In 2006 he ended a 14 year partnership with Goldman Sachs by acquiring its 25% stake in two subsidiaries for $72 million.
5. Anand Mahindra
Anand Gopal Mahindra (born 1 May 1955) is the Chairman of Mahindra Group, a Mumbai-based business conglomerate.
The group operates in aerospace, agribusiness, aftermarket, automotive, components, construction equipment, defence, energy, farm equipment, finance and insurance, industrial equipment, information technology, leisure and hospitality, logistics, real estate and retail.
Anand Mahindra is the grand-son of Jagdish Chandra Mahindra, co-founder of Mahindra & Mahindra.
As of September 2017, his net worth is estimated to be $1.55 billion. He is an alumnus of Harvard University and Harvard Business School. In 1996, he established Nanhi Kali, a non-government organisation that supports education for underprivileged girls in India.
6. Ratan Tata
Ratan Tata is the lender of about 20 new companies, including Ola Electric, climate figure firm ClimaCell, Paytm, CarDekho, UrbanLadder, and Lenskart. Tara Trusts additionally spent around Rs 1,500 crore in charitable exercises in 2018-19.
7. Virat Kohli
Kohli captained India Under-19s to victory at the 2008 Under-19 World Cup in Malaysia, and a few months later, made his ODI debut for India against Sri Lanka at the age of 19.
Initially having played as a reserve batsman in the Indian team, he soon established himself as a regular in the ODI middle-order and was part of the squad that won the 2011 World Cup. He made his Test debut in 2011 and shrugged off the tag of "ODI specialist" by 2013 with Test hundreds in Australia and South Africa.
Having reached the number one spot in the ICC rankings for ODI batsmen for the first time in 2013, Kohli also found success in the Twenty20 format, winning the Man of the Tournament twice at the ICC World Twenty20 (in 2014 and 2016).
8. Natarajan Chandrasekaran
Under the initiative of N Chandrashekharan, Tata Motors propelled the Tata Tigor EV in June 2019, conveying 40 electric buses to the Jammu and Kashmir government on July 2.
9. Amitabh Bachchan
Because he is still box-office gold with last release Badla (2019) raking in Rs 87.5 crore.
10. Shiv Nadar
Shiv Nadar (born 14 July 1945) is an Indian billionaire industrialist and philanthropist. He is the founder and chairman of HCL and the Shiv Nadar Foundation. Nadar founded HCL in the mid-1970s and transformed the IT hardware company into an IT enterprise over the next three decades by constantly reinventing his company's focus.
In 2008, Nadar was awarded Padma Bhushan for his efforts in the IT industry. Nadar, nicknamed by friends as Magus (Old Persian for "wizard"), since the mid-1990s has focused his efforts on developing the educational system of India through the Shiv Nadar Foundation. He is the brother of Tamil novelist Ramanichandran.
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