Indian startup ecosystem,” said Anas Rahman Junaid, MD and Chief Researcher, Hurun Report India Table 6: Hurun India Rich List 2017 – Self-made under 40 S.No Name Age Wealth (INR Crore) City Company Industry Notable Investors 1 Binny Bansal 34 5,400 Bengaluru Flipkart SoftBank, Microsoft, Tencent 2 Divyank Turakhia 35 11,500 Dubai Media.Net Media Tech Self funded 3 Sachin Bansal 36 5,400 Bengaluru Flipkart SoftBank, Microsoft, Tencent 4 Vijay Shekhar Sharma 39 9,000 New Delhi Paytm Fin Tech Alibaba 5 Byju Raveendran 39 1,000 Bengaluru and Learn Edu Tech Zuckerberg Intiative, Tencent Source: Research Institute. For more details visit Women in the India Rich List increased by 300% from 15 to 53 this year 8.6% of the list are women of which 8 are self-made. The richest women are Savitri Jindal, 66, of OP Jindal Group with INR 46,500 crore, followed by Smitha V Crishna of Godrej, Indu Jain chairperson of Time Group. The richest self-made woman in India is biotechnology queen Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw of Biocon with INR 15,400 crore. Average age of women in the list 56. Table 7: Hurun India Rich List 2017 – Richest self-made Women in India NO Name Wealth Age Company Location Industry (INR Cr) 1 Kiran 15,400 64 Biocon Bengaluru Pharmaceuticals 2 Vembu Radha 4,500 44 Zoho Corp Chennai Software & Services 3 Sheela Gautam 2,600 85 Sheela Foam New Delhi Consumer Durables 4 Ambiga Subramanian 2,500 42 Mu Sigma Bengaluru Software & Services Shaw
1 13 Savitri Jindal & Family JSW Steel 67 46,500 Source: Hurun Research Institute. For more details visit Hurun Report continued its Self-Made Scorecard, measuring the degree to which billionaires are inherited or self-made. The scorecard is out of five, where 1 is inherited and not active in business, and 5 is self-made without help from parents. Self-made with a little help from parents was the most common route to becoming a billionaire, featuring 51% of the list. Second was self-made without help from parents, making up 9% of the list. Third was inheriting a business and growing it into a much bigger entity, with 38% and only one person was Self-Made Degree 1. Entrepreneurs appreciated by the government of 40 are Padma awardees, of which four are women. BVR Mohan Reddy of Cyient has awarded Padma Shri in 2017. There is no one in Hurun India Rich List 2016 who has received the highest civilian award, “Bharat Ratna”. 7 individuals hold either of the two awards. For instance Kiran Mazumdar Shaw of Biocon and Devi Prasad Shetty of Narayana Hrudayalaya holds both Padma Shri and Padma Bhushan. Pratap reddy of Apollo Hospitals and Ratan Tata of Tata Sons holds both Padma Vibhushan and Padma Bhushan. 11: Hurun India Rich List 2017 – Padma awardees Award Number Richest Company Wealth (INR Cr.) 1 Padma Vibhushan 6 LN Mittal ArcelorMittal 88,200 2 Padma Bhushan 19 Azim Premji Wipro 79,300 3 Padma Shri 22 Shanghvi Sun Pharma 89,000 Source: Hurun Research Institute. For more details visit Table 11.1: Hurun India Rich List 2017 – Padma awardee details Padma Award Name Company Year Vibhushan & Bhushan Prathap Reddy Apollo Hospitals 2010/1991 Ratan Tata Tata Sons 2008/2000 Azim Premji Wipro 2005/2011 Vibhushan & Shri NR Narayana Murthy Infosys 2000/2008 Vibhushan LN Mittal ArcelorMittal 2008 Prithvi Raj Singh Oberoi East India Hotels 2008