Three cofounder of Infosys, the bellwether of the country’s IT sector -- N.R. Narayana Murthy, S. Gopalakrishnan and Nandan Nilekani -- are cumulatively worth ₹63,000 crore. But the biggest billionaire from the sector is Azim Premji of Wipro, followed by Shiv Nadar of HCL.

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