Ravish Kumar is a phenomenal Indian political pundit and anchor for NDTV India. The enigmatic journalist and king of sarcasm is an established name in Indian Television. Insider in NDTV reported that the salary of this Indian reporter is equivalent to the salary paid to Hollywood's reporter. And the celebrated Indian journalist has a total net worth of US Dollars 20 Million.
The TV news reporter for NDTV was born 5 December 1974, and besides his journalism career, he also has a great career in books writing. His books include a romantic Nobel called Ishq Mein Shahar Hona, Dekhate Rahiye, and Ravishpanti which are listed as all time best sellers in India.
Net worth and salary from NDTV Network
The prestigious Ganesh Shankar Vidyarthi Award for Hindi Journalism and Creative Literature winner of 2010'th edition from the President of India, Ravish Kumar is an established news personality that has inspired a lot of newcomers who want to take journalism as their career.
Our sources confirm his salary to be around Rupees 5 lakh per month excluding his allowances and employee stock option (ESOs). So when we include all of his benefits from The News network it reaches the gross figure of Rs. 18 lakhs, which is around US $ 24671.3 and that when accounted his annual salary reaches around Rs. 2.16 crore (US $ 296055.59 when converted to Dollars)
Career journey from East Champaran Motihari, Bihar to NDTV headquarters New Delhi
Let's talk about his life before he became a senior executive editor at NDTV India. The reporter was born in East Champaran, Bihar and graduated from Loyola High School, Patna. The journalist later moved to Delhi for his college-level studies and graduated from Deshbandhu college the University of Delhi.
A resident of the least developed state of entire India got his big break after starting to report for his show called Ravish Ki Report which was one of the most viewed shows in NDTV and he also hosted a show called Prime Time, Hum Log focused on general issues of people.
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— ravish kumar (@ravishndtv) August 22, 2015
He is also known for his phenomenal reporting on 2014 Lok Sabha elections he also interviewed common people from several states and highlighted the prevalent issues as well as the view of common people regarding elections.
Awards Won by Ravish Kumar
He has won The prestigious Ganesh Shankar Vidyarthi Award for Hindi Journalism and Creative Literature in 2010 and the prize was presented to him by the President of India later in 2014. Other than that he also won 2013's Journalist of the Year award called Ramnath Goenka Excellence in Journalism Award too.
In 2014 he brought home The Indian news television award for Best News anchor in Hindi. The popular magazine The Indian Express has enlisted Kumar in their list of 100 most influential Indians in 2016. He also has been awarded as the best journalist of the year 2015 by Mumbai press club.
Sources: outlookindia, NDTV, notjustrich, worldstopmost, reportpanda, twitter