119 Indian dollar billionaires earned Rs.2,200 crores per day - says Oxfam International Report 2018.

On the eve of the World Economic Forum meeting at Davos, the Oxfam International has released it’s report, explaining how drastically the gap between the rich and the poor had widened in India in the year 2018. The report says that 18 new dollar billionaires have come up in 2018. With this the total number of dollar billionaires in India has gone up to 119. Everyday, the wealth of the Indian billionaires has grown by a staggering Rs.2,200 crores in 2018, says the report. It further points out that, the wealth of Indian dollar billionaires was $3.25 billion in 2017, and it increased to $440.1 billion in 2018. This is the single largest annual increase since the world economic crisis started in 2008, says the report.