Indian guy making $1billion home in India
Details have emerged of a huge new building in Mumbai that is being built by India's richest man, Mukesh Ambani.
His skyscraper home in the city will be over 170m tall and will have an army of 600 staff to manage it.
Its 27 floors on a 4,532 sq metre plot will provide a panoramic view of the entire city of Mumbai (Bombay) once it is completed next year.
With the country's economy soaring, India's commercial city is poised to have many more such skyscrapers.
Construction of the family home is well under way.
'Full view'
The son of a former petrol pump attendant who went on to build a business empire, Mukesh Ambani is reportedly spending $1bn on his new home.
Mr Ambani has been accused of an obscene display of wealth
Legend has it that Mr Ambani - the chairman, and largest shareholder of Reliance Industries, India's largest private sector company - wants to enjoy a "full view" of the Arabian Sea.
So his architects came up with the idea of a 27-storey home.
The first six floors will serve as car parks. A health club will be built on the next two and the few floors above that will house hundreds of staff.
Fifty-year-old Mr Ambani and his family will occupy the top floors of the building which will also have a helipad and swimming pools.
Critics say it is an obscene display of wealth, especially in a city where more than half the inhabitants live on the pavements.
Architects believe that the construction of high-rises will provide a long-term solution to the problem of sheltering the city's homeless, especially when development land is in short supply.
One architect who is constructing a building which will be even taller than that planned by Mr Ambani told the BBC that Mumbai will soon be "littered with high-rises" as the government strives to shift slum dwellers into tower blocks.
Damn!!!!
How much is $1 billion dollar in Indian Currency??
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i read this a few days ago and it makes me sick!!! how can you live in a 60 storey house reserved for you and 4 other members of your family when there are children in the same city that sleep on the sidewalks??
he's worked for the money, invested well etc, good for him, but theres a fine line between a high class lifestyle, and a disgusting, vulgar display of wealth. shame on him.
Disgusting!! Well, let him build that home and after that , let those people who sleep on the street live there.
It is so easy to talk "Adarsha" dude...just ask yourself what is wrong in fulfilling your dreams when you have worked hard to earned billions. I see nothing wrong in it...and ask yourself again...Have you posed this question on sajha just because he is an Indian...sorry dude...i think you are disgusting than him.
OYE R@ANDI KO BAHAN DESHBHAKTINEPALI,
TA MU@JI BESI HALLA GARCHHAS.I JUST POSTED THE NEWS. I THOUGHT IT WAS INTERESTING SO I DECIDED TO SHARE IT IN SAJHA. DID I WROTE ANYTHING BAD ABT THIS GUY IN THIS THREAD.
TA MUJI LAI KINA JANNE......HOW COME I GOT DIGUSTING JUST BY POSTING A NEWS? TA MU@JI DISGUSTING.....JE PAYO TEHI KURA MA COMPLAINT GANRU PARNE....R@ANDI KO BAHAN DESHBHAKTA...TERO NAME CHANGE GARERA DHOTI DESBHALTA RAKH SALE.....
fck indians... they suk all the time... no matter if they are Bihai
to 1 billion house owner
hahahaha....your word selection explain it all Mr.Balbahadur...i don't think it is necessary for me to comment anything further.
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