Reliance Chairman Mukesh Ambani will be celebrating his 64th birthday.
Mukesh Ambani is the richest Indian. His net worth is $73 billion, according to the Bloomberg Billionaire index.
Amid the second COVID-19 wave, Reliance is diverting oxygen produced at its refineries to supplement availability in worst-hit COVID states like Maharashtra and the trucks carrying supplies are in transit, PTI cited sources as saying.
Meanwhile in last year i.e. 2020, Mukesh Ambani announced an additional Rs 500 crore donation to PM-CARES Fund.
Mukesh Ambani was born on April 19, 1957, in Aden, Yemen.
As a small textile company his father Dhirubhai Ambani founded Reliance Industries in 1966.
Talking about his assets – Mukesh Ambani owns the world’s most expensive residential property — Antilia located in South Mumbai, which is a 27 storey building with 3 helipads, 6 floors of car parking and more than 600 staff members.
According to Brand Finance’s Global 500 ranking, the world’s leading brand valuation consultancy, Jio has quickly become the largest mobile network operator in India and the third-largest mobile network operator in the world, with almost 400 million subscribers.
Setting a personal example of moderation in managerial compensation levels, Mukesh Ambani kept his annual salary from RIL capped at Rs 15 crore for the 12th year on the trot in the fiscal ended March 31, 2020 and had decided to forego the entire remuneration from the year 2020 in view of the COVID-19 pandemic. “In light of the COVID-19 outbreak in India, which has exacted a huge toll on the societal, economic and industrial health of the nation, Mukesh D. Ambani, the Chairman and Managing Director, has voluntarily decided to forego his salary,” the company said in its annual report.
