A female entrepreneur won an award on International Women’s Day for creating an innovative new app which gives small businesses a bigger voice in the community.

Manasi P Adholiya, 38, from Harrow, won the ‘Young Entrepreneur’ award for her design at the “She Inspires Award 2018” at the Houses of Parliament on March 8.

The app, called Aunty Ji, will give registered small companies and business people who do a range of jobs from gardening, baking, physical therapy and even face-painting, a chance to compete online against the big search engines like Google.

Manasi Adholiya was awarded a trophy for her small business app

Harrow Times:

The award ceremony which was held in the great Westminster Hall was organised by IIW (Inspiring Indian Women) and their creative partners, Hangover Media.

The evening promoted the achievements of 13 inspiring Indian women across as many categories, and IIW received hundreds of applications from across the world.

Some of the other categories included ‘Remarkable Mentor’, ‘Power Woman’, ‘Intellectual’ and ‘Glamour’.

Guests included Lord Meghnad Desai, and Chairman of the Indo-British All Parliamentary Party Group, Shri Virendra Sharma, who also hosted the occasion.

Ms Adholiya, who received a trophy and certificate, said: “I am really honoured to be recognised for the work I am doing and the award means a lot more than I can say.

“I feel very happy looking at my app and where it has reached in such a small span of time.”