Bhubaneswar, Mar 17: Lions Club of Hyderabad Yuva celebrated Season 5, Bhubaneswar Edition 2 of the prestigious GrandQueens Leadership Awards 2024. A total of women leaders including 17 from GrandQueens Club and five by Lions Cub of Hyd Yuva were awarded at Hotel Suraj Palace in Infocity area of Bhubaneswar.
The ceremony was graced by Guest-of-Honour Akash Dash Nayak, renowned actor, ex-MLA and Chairperson – Mo-College. Lopamishra Jana, COO, STPINEXT attended the event as a Special Guest.
The Odisha Chapter President of GrandQueens Club, Munmun Singh has been building this organization of GrandQueens Club since almost three years in the State. Awardees from various Cities in Odisha came to take the Award. The Awards Convenor and Founder Saurabh Sureka and Co-founder Rupa Sureka have been working on this concept of GrandQueens Club for 7 years and have formed a wonderful community of Women Achievers and Leaders. The nomination for Awards are invited from 108 identified fields of work and is in its 5th year. The Awards were started in Hyderabad in 2020 and has been traveling all India since then. The Kolkata, Bhubaneswar, Patna and Ajmer editions of the Grand Queens will be hosted in this month itself. The Award has its winners from various other countries as well, viz Bangladesh, UAE, UK, USA, Singapore & Belgium as well.
GrandQueens Club is a forum of all working women across various fields and age groups to come together to build network, collaborate and grow. They have introduced various activities and initiatives like GrandQueens Confluence, GrandQueens Talent Walk & Grand Home Chef India, etc to increase collaborations among the GrandQueens.
Also, “Charkha Foundation” an initiative by Saurabh Sureka to promote handlooms, organised a graceful ramp walk by 10 GrandQueens representing various states of India, showcasing Beauty of Bharat wearing Handloom Sarees. The Saree Walk was Choreographed by Manpreet Kaur. The show was anchored by Kapila Nagpal.
The GrandQueens Community consists now of more than 400 GrandQueens and among them they have identified 16 GrandQueens who have been shortlisted by a rigorous process for a special title “Queen of GrandQueens”.
For Bhubaneswar the Queen of GrandQueen was chosen to be Munmun Singh which is an extremely coveted Title.
Following is the list of 21 Awardees:
