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NT Bureau
Chennai, Jan 16:
 

Shaarada K Sriram, managing director, Ideal Play Abacus India Pvt Ltd,  who won the 'Best Women Entrepreneur of the Year 2006'  award is seen with Uday Mathur, MD, Eurokids, in Delhi recently.

        Shaarada K Sriram, managing director, Ideal Play Abacus India Pvt Ltd won the 'Best Woman Entrepreneur of the Year 2006' award given by Franchise India and Eurokids.

        At a function held at the Franchise Awards 2006 event in Delhi, Uday Mathur, MD, Eurokids presented the award to her.

        Shaarada is a Chartered Accountant and Cost Accountant by qualification. A gold medalist in college, she won gold medal from Institute of Cost and Works Accountants too and also a rank holder in CA (All India 10th).

        Franchisee awards are given to celebrate excellence in perfor-mance in Franchising, licensing and Business development. The Franchisee awards presentation process has now entered its 4th year in a row. These awards are given by Franchise India Holdings Ltd. The Franchising world values her entrepreneurship and appreciates the dedication to the cause of Franchising. In a bid to reward her efforts in providing opportunities and growth prospects to Franchisees/Franchisors, Franchise India Holdings Ltd dedicated the award to her entrepreneurial spirit.

        Ideal Play Abacus India Pvt ltd was set up by women entrepreneurs in 2003. The ISO 9001:2000 certified IPA is affiliated to Play Abacus Malaysia and the Guang Xi Abacus Association, China. In a short span of 3 years, the company has set up over 350 centres all over India with more than 600 trained teachers and has over 40,000 students. Some of the states where IPA is represented are : Maharashtra, Goa, Rajasthan, Karnataka, Kerala, Punjab, Haryana, Jammu and Kashmir, Andhra Pradesh, Chattisgarh, Gujarat, Jharkhand and Tamil Nadu and is soon launching centres in many more States.