Fempowerment Women Achievers Award 2016 winners announced

The award function was attended by the who’s who of the industry included Subhash Ghai, Saroj Khan, Kailash Kher ,Dolly Thakore, Chhaya Momaya, Mrunalini Deshmukh, Krishika Lulla, Bhawana Somaaya, Gurmeet Choudhry, Debina, Supriya, Sriti Jha , Sayantani Ghosh, Sanjeeda Sheikh, Karan Tacker, Ritvik Dhanjani, Asha Negi, Aditi Mittal, Shahid Mallya, Lavina, Meghna Ghai Puri, ?Shaina Nath, Sathya Saran , Shilpa Rao , and many more

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Published: Aug 29, 2016 6:38 PM | 3 min read

Fempowerment Women Achievers Award 2016 winners announced

Molecule Communications in association with Zee TV celebrated its most Philanthropic and Inspiring award ‘The Fempowerment Women Achievers Award’, by honoring the achievements of the women from all walks of life.

The awardees have made a significant difference in their chosen causes. The award function was attended by the who’s who of the industry included Subhash Ghai, Saroj Khan, Kailash Kher ,Dolly Thakore, Chhaya Momaya, Mrunalini Deshmukh, Krishika Lulla, Bhawana Somaaya, Gurmeet Choudhry, Debina, Supriya, Sriti Jha , Sayantani Ghosh, Sanjeeda Sheikh, Karan Tacker, Ritvik Dhanjani, Asha Negi, Aditi Mittal, Shahid Mallya, Lavina, Meghna Ghai Puri, ‎Shaina Nath, Sathya Saran , Shilpa Rao , and many more.

Fempowerment is unique for its process and ideology, there were fifteen categories of awards, 7 months of nomination process, 8 screening jury members for final nominees followed by main jury which included- Ridham Desai, Managing Director, Morgan Stanley India, Subhash Ghai, Producer, Director and Screenwriter, Founder and Chairman Whistling Woods International, Mrunalini Deshmukh, renowned Senior Lawyer and Author, Annurag Batra, Chairman & Editor-in-Chief, Business World, Adil Malia, Global Head For Leadership, Learning & People Management, Essar Group), Bhawana Somaaya, Critic Columnist & Author.

Kiren Shrivastav , Founder of Fempowerment Awards & CEO of Molecule Communications said,” We are building an authentic platform our USP being our transparent process where the audience is involved as well. I am personally grateful to all the jury members, the channel, and the entire team of Fempowerment for realizing this dream. We are going global with our inaugural international event in New York to be followed by Dubai soon. I believe that Men and Women are not equal, they are Different. Hence we are the only awards that have a special recognition to a man by women. “

Zee TV & Zee Studios Business Head Akash Chawla commented, “As a powerful medium of influencing positive changes in society, Zee TV has pioneered socially relevant television programming and addressed pertinent, topical issues over the years. The objective of Fempowerment Women Achievers’ Awards is in sync with our commitment towards the cause of empowering women. The idea is to recognize and acknowledge the contribution of women achievers across fields who will be role models to countless other women in India.”

Saroj Khan legendary choreographer and winner at Fempowerment Awards said, “It’s always great to get acknowledged through awards this one is more special because its women achievers awards and I am thankful to the team and people behind Fempowerment Awards for this initiative.”

Here's the complete list of the awardees in different categories:

SPORTS – Hetal Dave

LITERATURE - S Prasanna sree

JOURNALISM - Shaili Chopra

CORPORATE - Shikha Sharma

HEALTH AND WELLNESS - Priti Shroff

SOCIAL - Safeena Hussain

ACTRESS - Priyanka chopra

EDUCATION - Geetanjali Babbar

ENTERTAINMENT CORPORATE - Shobha Kapoor

ENTERTAINMENT CREATIVE - Shanoo Sharma

FINE ARTS-PAINTING SCULPTING- Aarohi Singh