Savitri Jindal: India’s richest woman, whose fortune rose by $12 billion in 2 years

Savitri Jindal, who took over her husband’s steel and power conglomerate after his sudden death in 2005, saw her fortune rise by $12 billion in just the last two years. With a net worth of $18 billion, Jindal is India’s richest woman and the only woman in the top 10 of Forbes’ list of richest Indians in 2021. Here’s a look at the remarkable story of the woman who stepped out of the shadows to take control of a flourishing business empire and took it from strength to strength.

Savitri Jindal was 55-years-old when her husband Om Prakash Jindal died in a helicopter crash. At a time of life when most others are retiring and putting their feet up, Savitri Jindal took over the reins of her late husband’s business empire.

Today, she is the Chairperson Emeritus of the OP Jindal Group, whose revenue grew by four times under her leadership.

But before she became the businesswoman she is today, Jindal was a wife and mother who once famously said that women in the Jindal family do not venture out. “We remain in charge of the house while the men take care of everything outside,” she said in an interview with Forbes.