Odisha Sprinter Dutee Chand Featured in 50 Most Powerful Indians List

New Delhi: Odisha’s star sprinter Dutee Chand has featured in the list of most powerful Indians 2019 by a leading magazine.

The national record holder runner has been ranked 47th in the India Today’s list of most powerful Indians  for her outstanding performance at 2018 Asian Games and 2019 World Unversiade.

“India’s first openly ‘gay’ sportsperson, Dutee Chand won two silver medals at the 2018 Asian Games. She also won gold at the 2019 World Unversiade. With the gold, Dutee Chand became the second Indian sprinter ever to do so at a global event,” India Today mentioned.

This year’s list of most powerful Indians has 27 businessmen and women, up from 22 last year. The list is topped by the world’s 13th richest man – Mukesh Ambani, who has a net worth of $50 billion (Rs 3.45 lakh crore), the magazine wrote.

Kumar Mangalam Birla has been ranked second in the list of most powerful Indians. Others on the list include: Gautam Adani, Uday Kotak, Anand Mahindra, Ratan Tata, Virat Kohli, K Chandrashekharan, Amitabh Bachchan and Shiv Nadar.

POWER LIST 2019 – 50 MOST POWERFUL PEOPLE IN INDIA

1. Mukesh Ambani
2. Kumar Mangalam Birla
3. Gautam Adani
4. Uday Kotak
5. Anand Mahindra
6. Ratan Tata
7. Virat Kohli
8. N Chandrashekharan
9. Amitabhh Bachchan
10. Shiv Nadar
11. Ajay Piramal
12. Azim H Premji
13. Sajjan Jindal
14. Anil Agarwal
15. Uday Shankar
16. Amit Agarwal
17. Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
18. Sanjiv Goenka
19. Harish Salve
20. Sunil Bharti Mittal
21. Akshay Kumar
22. Aditya Puri
23. Nita Ambani
24. Ajay Singh
25. Baba Ramdev
26. Vineet Jain
27. Ranveer Singh
28. Shashi Tharoor
29. Salman Khan
30. RC Bhargava
31. Mahendra Mohan Gupta and Sanjay Gupta
32. Sanjiv Puri
33. Vijay Shekhar Sharma
34. Dr Naresh Trehan
35. Rahul Bhatia
36. Rajinikanth
37. Sanjiv Bajaj
38. Dilip Shanghvi
39. Kiran Mazumdar Shaw
40. Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev
41. Pawan Munjal
42. Deepika Padukone
43. Ritesh Agarwal
44. Kiran Nadar
45. Byju Raveendran
46. Prasoon Joshi
47. Dutee Chand
48. Ekta Kapoor
49. Monika Shergill
50. Amish Tripathi

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