India’s five richest billionaires added a whopping $15 billion, or roughly Rs 1,00,000 crore, to their wealth in the first six months of 2019.
The top seven gainers in terms of wealth creation earned $20 billion, or Rs 1,40,000 crore. This is nearly one-fifth of the increase in market value of the entire listed universe during this period.
Except for steel magnet Lakshmi Mittal, each of the five richest billionaires added at least $1.7 billion, or Rs 12,000 crore, to their kitty, publicly available data with Bloomberg suggests.
