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Azim Premji tops EdelGive Hurun India Philanthropy list 2020

The preferred cause of India's top philanthropists over the past seven years has been education and 2020 was no different as most of the donations were made for this purpose

Azim Premji
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Azim Premji, former chairman of Wipro.

Puneet Wadhwa New Delhi
Even though they are successful in the businesses they run, striving hard for the profit their companies earn and fighting bitter boardroom battles at times, India Inc has always helped society and made others benefit from their success.

Azim Premji, the 75-year-old former chairman of Wipro has been the most generous philanthropist in India for 2020 with a donation of Rs 7,904 crore, as per EdelGive Hurun India Philanthropy List 2020 unveiled Tuesday.

Shiv Nadar, founder chairman of HCL Technologies was ranked second, followed Mukesh Ambani, chairman, Reliance Industries, Kumar Mangalam Birla, chairman of Aditya Birla Group, and Anil Agarwal,

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