10 Highest Paid CEOs in India

By siliconindia   |   Thursday, 10 November 2011, 00:53 IST   |    3 Comments
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Bangalore: It is not Mukesh Ambani, Azim Premji or Gautam Adani in the list of highest paid CEOs in India. The Capitaline study has made a clear salary figures on the highest paid CEOs in India which is listed below. Naveen Jindal:
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Naveen Jindal, chairman and MD of Jindal steel and power gets a salary of 69.7 Crores per annum that means 5.8 Crores per month. This is the highest salary fetched by the CEO in India. Jindal group is the fourth largest private sector by assets and sales turnover. Though his salary dropped down by 3.66 percent in 2010-2011 tenure he still ranks first. He is also a member of parliament from Haryana from where he gets 50,000 as income which he will be donating for social activities. Kalanithi Maran:
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The chairman and MD of Sun Network, most profitable television network in Asia and Spicejet is the second highest paid CEO in India with a salary of 64.4 crore. Kalanithi's salary got boosted up by 73.68 percent for 2010-2011. His television channels and newspapers dominate the whole south Indian media. He was won prestigious honors like young businessman award from VNBC and Ernest and young. The U.S. based Forbes magazine listed him as the television king of southern India. He is the son of the late and former union minister Murasoli Maran and grand nephew of the DMK president M. Karunanidhi.

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