Meet Rohini Nilekani India’s most charitable woman, wife of Infosys co-founder donates Rs 120 crore
Meet Rohini Nilekani India’s most charitable woman, wife of Infosys co-founder donates
Rs 120 crore
Rohini Nilekani, the wife of Infosys co-founder Nandan Nilekani is acknowledged as amongst India’s most generous women. This comes according to EdelGive Hurun India Philanthropy List 2022. She had made a donation of Rs 120 crore in the year 2021-22.
The majority of the donations from Rohini were for causes related to ecology, sanitation, and education.
Notably, Nilekani stood at 11th position in the philanthropist list, followed by Leena Gandhi Tiwari of USV, who spent
Rs 21 crore on social causes.
Philanthropies are as of now under the direction of Indian author and philanthropist Rohini Nilekani. She started her career as a journalist, working for prestigious publications.
She was also a founding partner of the nonprofit educational platform EkStep as well as the nonprofit children’s publisher Pratham Books.
In a bid to promote national initiatives for sustainable water and sanitation, she also founded the Arghyam Foundation.
Rohini was raised in a middle-class household, where her mother worked as a homemaker and her father was an engineer. She graduated in French literature from Elphinstone College.
As per corporate shareholdings records for December 31, 2022, Rohini Nilekani publicly holds
1 equity and with a net worth of over Rs. 4,878.0 crore, according to Trendlyne.
The Nilekani family’s net wealth is currently estimated by Rohini Nilekani Philanthropies to be $1.7 billion.
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