The chairperson of HCL Technologies Roshni Nadar Malhotra has retained her position as the richest woman in India, with a 54 percent jump in her networth to Rs 84,330 crore in 2021.
Falguni Nayar, who quit her investment banking career to start the beauty focused brand Nykaa around a decade ago, has emerged as the richest self-made woman with a net worth of Rs 57,520 crore, as per the Kotak Private Banking-Hurun list published on Wednesday.
Nayar, who is 59, saw a 963 percent increase in her wealth during the year and is also the second richest woman overall, trailing the 40-year-old Malhotra, the daughter of HCL Technologies' founder Shiv Nadar, as per the report.
Biocon's Kiran Mazumdar Shaw witnessed a 21 percent decline in her fortune and has moved down one rank to be the third richest woman in the country with a wealth of Rs 29,030 crore, it said. The list of 100 women accounts for only Indian women, defined as born or brought up in India, who are actively managing their businesses or are self-made. The cumulative wealth of these 100 women has increased 53 percent in a year to Rs 4.16 lakh crore in 2021 from Rs 2.72 lakh crore in 2020, and they now contribute 2 percent of India's nominal Gross domestic product.
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