Richest 100 women in India worth ₹2.72 trillion

‘Kotak Wealth Hurun - Leading Wealthy Women’ report is a data-driven attempt to analyze wealth creation among Indian women:

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Kotak Wealth Management, a division of Kotak Mahindra Bank (Kotak), and Hurun India, which brings out the Hurun Rich List, which is a comprehensively evaluated list of the wealthiest individuals across the globe, have recently launched the 2nd edition of ‘Kotak Wealth Hurun - Leading Wealthy Women’, a compilation of the wealthiest women in India. The listing is based on the net worth of women as on 30 September 2020. The 2020 edition of the report focuses exclusively on women who play 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 the top 100 entrepreneurs, professionals and businesswomen in India. The average wealth of the women on this list is about ₹27.25 billion.

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With a wealth of ₹548.50 billion, Roshni Nadar Malhotra, 39, of HCL Technologies is the wealthiest woman on the list, followed by Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw (67) of Biocon having ₹366 billion and Leena Gandhi Tewari of USV with ₹213.40 billion. Eight $ billionaires are on the list, while 38 have wealth of Ì€ 10 billion and above. Cumulative wealth of women wealth creators on the list is at ₹2.72 trillion.

As much as 12% of the list are those born under the zodiac sign Cancer and 11% under Scorpio. There are 8 Padma awardees and the average age of those featuring on the list is 53 years.

Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw has the highest number of social media followers among the women finding their place in the list. She has 1.5 million followers on Twitter. Fashion designer Anita Dongre comes second with 390,000 followers.