Top 5 Richest People in India 2015

A record year for India. The latest FORBES list feature 90 Indian billionaires with a collective net worth of $295 billion; an increase of 28 newcomers. According to the magazine, Mukesh Ambani is no longer the richest person in India.

Let’s see the top 10 richest people in India of 2015, according to FORBES.

Sunil Mittal

Sunil Mittal (Net Worth: $7.8 Billion)

Owning India’s biggest mobile operator, Indian telecom tycoon Sunil Mittal has built himself a fortune in only 57 years of life. His company Bharti Airtel is world’s fourth-largest telecom by number of subscribers. In 2014, Bharti Airtel crossed a milestone of 300 million customers.

Kumar Birla

Kumar Birla (Net Worth: $9.2 Billion)

After inheriting the Aditya Birla Group, a commodities conglomerate in 1995, Kumar felt the need to increase his fortune, so he bought businesses becoming the country’s largest cement producer. In a move to solidify the group’s cement business, his UltraTech Cement acquire two Indian cement units from rival Jaypee Group for a reported $870 million.

Godrej Family

Godrej Family (Net Worth: $11.6 Billion)

The owner of Godrej Group, a 117- year-old consumer goods conglomerate, Adi Godrej prides himself with the achievement of his children who run Godrej Properties, group’s biggest business. The family’s wealth, which until this year was listed under group chairman Adi Godrej, rose along with the value of its vast estate in suburban mumbai.

Shiv Nadar 

Shiv Nadar (Net Worth: $12.5 Billion)

Tech billionaire Shiv Nadar is the owner of HCL Group, a large software producer with customers such as Boeing, Microsoft and Cisco. He co-founder  HCL Group which added $3.7 billion to his fortune on rising shares of software outfit HCL Technologies. Nadar has also expanded into healthcare with HCL Avitas, to build a chain of clinics in partnership with John Hopkins Medicine International.

Hinduja Brothers

 Hinduja Brothers (Net Worth: $13.3 Billion)

London based Indian billionaire brothers Srichand and Gopichand run a multinational company with diverse business from banking and healthcare to trucks. Their fortune is up by 50%, thanks to a rebound in the auto sector that boosted shares of their Indian truck-maker, Ashok Leyland.

The brothers are planning to invest as much as $10 billion in reviving stalled infrastructure and power projects in Indai, thanks to the new business-friendly the government have put in place.