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Nandan Nilekani Creates Sensation With Charity

By:  Tupaki Desk   |   1 Jun 2018 9:16 AM GMT
Nandan Nilekani Creates Sensation With Charity
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Earning money is an obsession. Though many people deny it.. they do the same. If someone starts earning money, he will try to increase his income at any cost. He will not be satisfied with the money at any point in time. There is nothing wrong with it. But many people won't give away their money in donations and charitable programmes. But there will be exceptions to this trend. Infosys co-founder Nandan Nilekani and his wife Rohini Nilekani created a sensation by announcing that they will give away half of their wealth in charity.

They have made a promise to donate half of their wealth to Giving Pledge NGO which was set up by Bill Gates-Melinda Gates & Warren Buffet. Three other billionaires joined them in charity. Aneel -Allison Bhusri.. Shamsheer-Shabina Vayalil.. BR Shetty- Chandramukhi Raghuram Shetty. We know about Nandan Nilekani to some extent. But what about other Indian origin philanthropists?

Aneel Bhusri-Allison

Indian Origin American Aneel Bhusri is the co-founder of Workday. His wealth according to the Forbes magazine is Rs.12,124 crores. He is a board member director of Intel. His wife Allison Thoreson Bhusri is the investor in technological companies.

Shamsheer- Vayalil Shabina

This Indian origin couple based in UAE runs a hospitals group in the name of VPS Healthcare. They have 22 hospitals in four countries. They have 125 health care centers and medicine manufacturing company.

BR Shetty-Chandramukhi

Indian Origin couple based in UAE are running hospitals in 13 countries with the name NMC Health. They are providing services to poor in India.. Nepal.. Egypt with the name BR Life. They run several educational institutions as well.