It’s not only the rich lists where persons of Indian origin are making it big in the UK; they have also emerged among the most powerful businessmen of their respective sectors, led by the likes of steel tycoon Lakshmi Mittal and telecom titan Arun Sarin.

While Mittal, recently named UK’s richest persons for the fourth year in a row, has been identified as the fifth most powerful in the UK manufacturing business, Sarin has beaten all to grab the top slot in the 100 most powerful persons’ list in the country’s technology and telecom sector. These are based on the top 100 business people lists currently being published by the Daily Telegraph newspaper here. The daily is spotlighting UK’s 1,000 most powerful in business and has divided it into ten sectors.

The lists of top 100 for each sector are being published in a span of two weeks.
So far, at least 16 persons of Indian origin have made it to the various lists published so far, including half a dozen in the healthcare and chemicals sector list, released on Wednesday.