Savitri Jindal

Savitri Jindal
Born	20 3 1950 (age 76 years old (as of 2026) ) (Forbes)
Occupation	Industrialist; politician
Known for	Chair of the O.P. Jindal Group; chairperson emeritus of Jindal Steel
Spouse(s)	Om Prakash Jindal (died 2005)
Children	9 (Forbes)

Indian industrialist and politician; chairperson emeritus of Jindal Steel and head of the O.P. Jindal Group family; member of the Haryana Legislative Assembly for Hisar

Savitri Jindal (born 1950) is an Indian industrialist and politician. She chairs the O.P. Jindal Group, founded by her late husband Om Prakash Jindal, and is chairperson emeritus of Jindal Steel Limited.^[1]^[2] She has represented Hisar in the Haryana Legislative Assembly for three terms: as a Congress member, first elected in 2005, and since October 2024 as an independent who backs the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) state government.^[3]^[4]^[5]^[6] On 20 October 2026 the Forbes Real-Time Billionaires list ranked Savitri Jindal & family 56th in the world, with an estimated net worth of US$38.26 billion; Forbes lists the source of wealth as Steel.^[1]^[7] In the annual World's Billionaires list published in 2026, Forbes had ranked Savitri Jindal 51st, at US$39.1 billion.^[8]

Family and the O.P. Jindal Group

Forbes records that Om Prakash Jindal started in business making buckets in 1952 and founded a pipe unit, Jindal India, in 1964. After he died in a helicopter crash in 2005, the group's companies were divided among his four sons, who run them independently. Forbes describes the group's interests as steel, power, cement and infrastructure, with Savitri Jindal as its chair.^[1] The Hindu reported that O.P. Jindal, also an industrialist-politician and a minister in the Haryana government, was killed when his private helicopter crashed near the Haryana–Uttar Pradesh border in March 2005.^[4]

According to Forbes, the largest assets are overseen by her son Sajjan Jindal. Based in Mumbai, he runs JSW Steel, JSW Cement and JSW Paints, among other businesses. Forbes also records that he floated the ports business JSW Infrastructure in 2023, set up an electric-vehicle joint venture with MG Motor in 2024, and listed JSW Cement in August 2025. Her younger son Naveen, based in Delhi, runs Jindal Steel & Power, now renamed Jindal Steel Limited.^[1]^[2] Forbes reported that the company was weighed down by US$7.1 billion of debt in 2017 and US$4.7 billion in 2021.^[1]

Jindal Steel

Jindal Steel Limited's integrated report for 2025–26, filed in August 2026, lists Savitri Jindal as chairperson emeritus. It carries a tribute saying she "has played a defining role in preserving the values" on which the company was founded, and credits her guidance with the company's education, healthcare, livelihood and community programmes. The report's shareholding schedules list "Savitri Devi Jindal" in the promoter group with 11,16,540 shares (0.11%). It also names a Savitri Jindal Airstrip and a Savitri Jindal DAV School in its operating areas.^[2] Her 2024 election affidavit, as tabulated by the Association for Democratic Reforms, lists holdings of 1,116,540 shares in Jindal Steel and Power among her movable assets.^[9]

Political career

Hindustan Times reported that she was first elected to the assembly for Hisar at a by-election held after her husband, the sitting member, died in 2005.^[3] The Hindu reported that she was a minister of state in Bhupinder Singh Hooda's 2005–2009 Congress government. On 29 October 2013 she was sworn in again as a minister, while sitting as a Congress legislator for Hisar.^[4] Hindustan Times said she would take the urban local bodies portfolio, and described her as a two-term member of the assembly.^[3]

In the October 2024 Haryana assembly election she stood in Hisar as an independent. According to the Election Commission's results, she won with 49,231 votes and a margin of 18,941.^[5] The Hindi daily Haribhoomi reported that she had previously been a BJP politician but was denied the party's ticket for the seat. It said the Congress candidate Ram Niwas Rara came second, and that after the result she declared support for the new BJP government, as did two other independents. Her son Naveen Jindal announced her support.^[6] Forbes records that Naveen left the Congress party and joined the BJP in March 2024.^[1]

Declared assets

Candidates for Indian elections must file sworn statements of assets. In her 2024 affidavit, as compiled by the Association for Democratic Reforms, she declared personal assets of ₹2,70,66,07,000 (about ₹270 crore) and no liabilities or criminal cases. The same record lists earlier declarations of about ₹43 crore (2009) and about ₹113 crore (2014).^[9] These figures cover only assets held in her own name. Forbes's net worth estimate is for her and her family.^[1]

Wealth

Forbes lists her as "Savitri Jindal & family" and gives steel as the source of the family's wealth.^[1]

Wealth history

Forbes has included this entry in its annual World's Billionaires list in 20 of the editions from 2001 to 2026 checked for this profile, starting with 2007. The table gives the rank and estimated net worth in each annual list.^[8]^[1]

Forbes estimates by list year
Year	World's Billionaires rank	Net worth (US$ bn)
2007	390	2.4
2008	110	8.2
2009	234	2.7
2010	44	12.2
2011	56	13.2
2012	80	10.9
2013	155	7.6
2014	295	4.9
2015	283	5.3
2016	453	3.5
2017	303	5.2
2018	176	8.8
2019	290	5.9
2020	349	4.8
2021	234	9.7
2022	91	17.7
2023	94	17.5
2024	46	33.5
2025	48	35.5
2026	51	39.1

Philanthropy

Jindal Steel's annual report credits her guidance for its education, healthcare and community programmes.^[2] No separate personal foundation in her name was documented in the sources checked.

International and political links

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