India' s Richest Woman is New Haryana Minister

India’s richest woman, Savitri Jindal, was Tuesday Oct 29,2013 inducted as a minister in the Haryana cabinet by Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda.

This is the second time that she has become a minister in the Hooda government. She was earlier a minister of state in the 2005-09 Hooda government. 

Ms. Jindal is a legislator from the ruling Congress from Hisar assembly constituency and is the mother of industrial tycoon and high-profile parliament member Naveen Jindal (Lok Sabha member from Kurukshetra)

Savitri Jindal’s industrialist-cum-politician husband O.P.Jindal, who too was a minister in the Hooda government, was killed when his private helicopter crashed near the Haryana-Uttar Pradesh border March 2005

Savitri Jindal was listed by a leading business publication as the country’s richest woman as she lords over a multi-billion rupee steel and power sector empire and is the chairperson of the Jindal Group. 

Savitri Jindal is the richest women in India with a net worth of $4.9 billion

Her name also figures in the Top-100 richest people in the world.