Savitri Jindal accumulated her substantial multi-billion-dollar fortune primarily through her inheritance and leadership of the O.P. Jindal Group following the tragic death of her husband, industrialist Om Prakash Jindal, in a helicopter crash in 2005. While she initially focused on her role as a homemaker raising their nine children, she stepped up as the chairperson of the conglomerate after his passing. Under her stewardship and the active management of her sons—who independently run the group's massive steel, power, mining, and infrastructure pillars—the family's corporate assets experienced phenomenal global growth and market valuation surges, propelling her to become one of the wealthiest individuals and the richest woman in India.