India can sometimes surprise you with the diversity of lifestyles. Most of the time when we mention India the first thing that comes in our mind is poverty. Today i'll present you the other side of the coin – the richest people in India. Some of them are not rich only by Indian standards but by world standards. I will represent the top 3 richest businessmen in the subcontinent for 2011 starting with number 3 and moving upwards.
Number 3 – Azim Premji. He owns an IT company called Wipro. It is one of the largest IT companies in India and also one of the biggest in the world. It has more than 100 000 employers world wide. The wealth of Mr. Premji is more than 16 Billion dollars. He was in top 50 richest men in the world every year for 1999 to 2005.
Number 2 – Mukesh Ambani. Today he is ninth richest in the world with personal wealth of more than 27 billion dollars. He is a chairman and major stakeholder of one of the largest conglomerates in the world- Reliance Industries.
Number 1 – Lakshmi Mittal. The richest in India and 4th richest in the world. He owns a steel company named ArcelorMittal. It is the biggest producer of steel in the world. The personal wealth of Mr. Mittal is more than 31 billion US dollars. Here are some interesting facts about the way all these money are being spent. Mr. Mittal's daughter had the most expensive wedding in the recorded history of the world. The new home of Mr. Mittal has more square metres of space than Verasailles. The price of this impressive home – 670 million pounds.
So, next time when you think about the poverty in India have in mind that this country is also home to one of the richest people on Earth.
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