Indian Billionaires Who Have Pledged Billions To Philanthropy

BANGALORE: It is of great encouragement when we hear of people doing something out of the normal to help a community, the poor or the needy. This extra mile act of selflessness to a cause we believe will change the state of the unprivileged in the society and around the world is being adopted by many but most of all the rich.

When the richest people around the world are willing to pledge a sum of their income or hard earned money it is mind blowing. We have CEOs and founders of huge multinational companies in this country who have pledge to give money to help the growth of the poor. Again money is not always the answer because it is easy to give blindly but hard to get our hands dirty in actually doing the act.

When it comes to that we can proudly look at some of the richest people in our nation as examples to this campaign. So here is a list of billionaires who have pledged huge sums of money to philanthropy compiled by Rediff.com.

Rohini Nilekani:

The wife of Nandan Nilekani, the ex-CEO of Infosys, Rohini Nilekani, along with her husband has been into philanthropic works for a while now.

Over the past eight years and more she has spent $40 million towards charity which mainly is into environment, governance and education.

These areas are the interests that the Nilekani family is focusing on. She has 1.3 percent of shares in Infosys and most of the money that comes out of that is used for charity. Her organization supports groups that are into building sanitary and educational works.

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