India's Billionaire Cities

A report prepared by Hurun, that compiles rich lists, in association with Barclays, catalogued the cities in which India’s billionaires live. The first few are no-brainers. But not all Indian billionaires prefer Mumbai or Delhi....

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Mumbai

India's financial capital naturally boasts of highest number of billionaires -- a whopping 91.

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NCR

National Capital Region, that includes Delhi, Gurugram and NOIDA, is the fancy-schmanzy address of 62 billionaires.

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Kolkata

25 billionaires live in grand homes in West Bengal's capital city.

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Pune

The 4th city with the maximum billionaires is Pune, surprisingly. 21 in all, including the famous Bajaj family of Humara Bajaj scooters.

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Chennai

17 high-net-worth individuals, with fortunes running into billions, prefer Madras.

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Ahmedabad

10 billionaires, many of whom are Shahs or Patels, call Ahmedabad home.

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Bengaluru

India's Silicon Valley, unlike its namesake (84 billionaires live in Silicon Valley, California), has merely 10 billionaires residing.

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Hyderabad

10 billionaires live in Hyderabad too.

 

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Vadodara

6 billionaires prefer to live in Gujarat's second biggest city.

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Nagpur

Here's an intriguing fact: Nagpur has 4 billionaires. So between Mumbai, Pune and Nagpur, Maharashtra has 116 billionaires

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Ludhiana

4 billionaires count among the 2.36 million that live in Punjab's most populous city. 

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