Published On : Sat, Oct 10th, 2015

Leading industrialist Shilpa Agrawal wins ‘Mrs Inspirational’ award

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She makes Nagpur proud of her yet another achievement!

Shilpa Agrawal
Nagpur: In the recently held Haute Monde International Mrs India World Wide Contest, the leading industrialist of the region, Shilpa Agrawal, won the prestigious ‘Mrs Inspirational’ 2015

Award on October 9 at Myanmar.
The 9-day-long event was organized at Sule Shangrila Hotel Yongon at Myanmar wherein as many as 42 contestants, all Indian married women from across the world, had participated, between Oct 1 and 9, 2015 at different places like Bangkok, Pattaya and Myanmar. There were many rounds of contest, like, Talent round, Ethnic round , Question-answer round , Introduction round  and Final round in which all participants were judged throughout the competition over nine days.

Shilpa agrawal, on asking  as to how her experience was in this prestigious contest, said, “Haute Monde Mrs india Worldwide Contest, or in fact, any beauty pageant like Miss Universe or Miss India is not about winning or losing. Every participant is a winner  here because they go home richer with lot of rich experience, lot of friends for life, lot of peer learning, grooming and exposure. I am really feeling honoured to be among one of the  42 most wonderful, beautiful and talented married Indian women from all over the world.”

According to Mrs Agrawal, majority of them were  from services  (Army, Navy, Air Force ). Their family backgrounds in services  bestowed them with confidence, poise, grace, talent, risk taking since their childhood. Many of them trained for beauty pageants for months from reputed international beauty pageant institutes like TIARA Training Institute, Pune (which conduct courses for beauty pageants). Many of them married recently and were participants of beauty pageants like Miss India before marriage.
She further said, “I am truly honoured to be amongst bunch of extremely beautiful , talented , graceful and wonderful friends. I learned and enjoyed a lot from these wonderful and very helpful friends who are now  my best friends for life. I should say, everyone should experience this life changing experience at least once in a life time. I would be delighted and very happy to help and mentor anybody who aspires to take part in any such contest.”

Shilpa agrawal had earlier won Mrs Nagpur Beauty Contest in 2004, and also Mr & Mrs Nagpur Contest along with her husband Akash Agrawal in 2005.

She has also bagged  the award of ‘Best Lady Industrialist of the Region’ at the hands of then Chief Minister of Maharashtra Prithviraj Chavan at Dainik Bhaskar award ceremony.

She was also awarded very prestigious Rotary International’s “Vocational Excellence Award ” through Royary Club of Nagpur.
She is one among very few lady industrialists in whole Central India who are full time into management and execution into hardcore business of manufacturing, wholesaling and retailing of furniture (which are otherwise mostly managed by males).

She has visited China few times to study furniture industry there and found overall women in China work shoulder to shoulder with men in all hardcore manufacturing and other businesses. It inspired her to excel and become one of the top lady industrialists of India so that she can also inspire other women to come into industry and thus contribute India in becoming business superpower. She is a visiting faculty to various MBA, BBA, Engg Colleges such as IMT, Katol , etc, and organisations like VIA , TIE , VMA. etc.