Here’s All About The Richest Women Of India!

Here’s a list of women that take the top 10 spots for being the richest in Indian territories!

Savitri Jindal

Businesswoman and politician, Savitri Jindal is currently the richest woman in India who married Om Prakash Jindal in the 1970s, who had founded the Jindal Group, a steel and power conglomerate. Jindal became the chairperson after her husband, O.P. Jindal, died in a helicopter crash in 2005.

She was a Minister in the Haryana Government and a member of the Haryana Vidhan Sabha (Legislative Assembly) from Hisar constituency. She lost the seat in elections held in 2014 for the Haryana assembly. She is a member of the INC political party.

Falguni Nayar

Popularly known for her startup company, Nykaa, Falguni Nayar ranks at the number on the list of richest women of India. Nayar was born and raised in a Gujarati family in Mumbai, Maharashtra.

Soon after Nykaa went public, Nayar became the wealthiest female Indian billionaire, with her net worth rising to the tune of $6.5 billion, and entered the list of the top 20 richest people of India.

Leena Gandhi Tiwari

A businesswoman and author by profession, Leena Gandhi Tiwari is the chairperson of USV Private Limited, a multinational pharmaceutical and biotechnology company based in Mumbai which was founded by her grandfather Vithal Balkrishna Gandhi in 1961.

The company specializes in diabetic and cardiovascular drugs as well as biosimilar drugs, injectables, and active pharmaceutical ingredients. With a net worth of US$2.6 billion, Tewari is one of the richest Indians and frequently appears on Forbes magazine's list.

Kiran Mazumdar Shaw

Kiran Mazumdar Shaw is the executive chairperson and founder of Biocon Limited and Biocon Biologics Limited, a biotechnology company based in Bangalore, India, and the former chairperson of the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore.

In 2019, she was listed as the 68th most powerful woman in the world by Forbes. While she was also named EY World Entrepreneur Of The Year 2021.

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Smita V Crishna

Crishna has a fifth stake in Godrej Group along with her brothers. She grabbed several headlines on buying the bungalow of Dr. Homi Jahangir Bhabha, the late atomic physicist for Rs 371 crore a few years back.

Godrej operates in sectors including real estate, consumer products, industrial engineering, appliances, furniture, security, and agricultural products.

Anu Aga

Anu Aga (born 3 August 1942) is an Indian billionaire businesswoman and social worker who led Thermax, an energy and environment engineering business, as its chairperson from 1996 to 2004. She was among the eight richest Indian women, and in 2007 was part of the 40 richest Indians by net worth according to Forbes magazine.

After retiring from Thermax, she took to social work, and in 2010 she was awarded the Padma Shri for Social Work by the Government of India. She is currently Chairperson of Teach For India. She was nominated to Rajya Sabha, the Upper House of Indian Parliament on 26 April 2012, by President Pratibha Patil.

Radha Vembu

Radha Vembu (born 1972/1973) is an Indian billionaire businesswoman, and the owner of a majority stake in Zoho Corporation, an Indian software development company.

Zoho Corporation was co-founded by her and her brother Sridhar Vembu, who started the business in 1996 as AdventNet. She owns a majority stake in the company and is a product manager for email service, Zoho Mail, and also the director of Corpus Foundation. She actively keeps herself away from the limelight.

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Mrudula Parekh

Pidilite Industries Limited is an Indian adhesives manufacturing company.[3] It manufactures products that can be segmented into consumer products: art materials and stationery; food and fabric care; car products and adhesives and sealants; and specialty industrial products: industrial adhesives; industrial pigments; industrial and textile resins, leather chemicals, construction chemicals, and other industrial chemicals.

Pidilite markets the Fevicol range of adhesives. Its other brands are FeviKwik, Dr. Fixit, Roff, Cyclo, Ranipal, Hobby Ideas, "WD-40", M-seal and Acron.

Sara George Muthoot

Muthoot Finance Ltd. is an Indian financial corporation and the largest gold loan NBFC in the country.[3] In addition to financing gold transactions, the company offers foreign exchange services, money transfers, wealth management services, travel, and tourism services, and sells gold coins. The company is headquartered in Kochi, Kerala, and operates over 4,400 branches throughout the country. Outside India, Muthoot Finance is established in the UK, the US, and the United Arab Emirates.

The company falls under the brand umbrella of The Muthoot Group. Its stocks are listed on the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) and NSE. As of March 2012, revenue (after expenditure) stood at more than ₹23,000 crores (US$4.2 billion). The target market of Muthoot Finance includes small businesses, vendors, farmers, traders, SME business owners, and salaried individuals.

Kavita Singhania

The Singhania family is a prominent Indian business family, that started out in the Indian city of Kanpur. The family expanded into three major branches and is currently based out of Kanpur, Mumbai, and Delhi. JK Organisation founded by Lala Kamlapat Singhania is one of the largest conglomerates in India today, with multiple million and billion dollar companies under its belt. The family owns majority stakes in several publicly listed companies such as JK Tyre, JK Cement, JK Lakshmi Cement, JK Paper, Jaykay Enterprises, JK Agri Genetics (JK Seeds), and JK Dairy (Umang Dairies). Some privately held companies in the family are Raymond Group, J.K. Ansell, JK Technosoft, JK Fenner, and Global Strategic Technologies.

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