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Paresh Rajde of Suvidhaa wins ICAI 2009 CA Business Achiever Award - SME

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Last Updated : Jan 20 2013 | 12:36 AM IST

Award recognizes the achievements of the fellow CA's in professional, personal and community services

CA Paresh Rajde, Founder MD & CEO of S-commerce major - Suvidhaa Infoserve Pvt. Ltd has been conferred the  Business Achiever award in the SME segment for his valuable contribution towards the service retailing industry and spearheading his company since its inception in the year 2007. The achievers, innovators and enablers in the corporate arena were awarded by Chief Guest Shri. Kumarmanagalam Birla and Shri. Shriprakash Jaiswal (Union Coal Minister) in a glitterati event in Mumbai.

ICAI awards are instituted by the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India, the top accountancy body in the country. The awards are considered to be the topmost recognition in accounting and financial circles and occupy a coveted space in the corporate community over the past few years.

Accepting the award, an elated Mr. Paresh Rajde, Founder Managing Director & CEO, Suvidhaa expressed, “The Business Achiever Award in the SME category provides us the opportunity to celebrate the endeavor of our sector. This award is recognition of Suvidhaa’s prosperous growth in recent times, thanks to our progressive and creative approach to business and an entrepreneurial spirit that remains as strong as ever. This recognition will help us to enhance the confidence of our investors, vendors, customers and last but not the least our employees in the internal functioning of the Company”

As a Chartered Accountant, Shri. Rajde began his career in 1991 by setting up his practice and continued for almost a decade, during this period, he was also an Advisor for Online Lotteries to various State Governments viz., Aurnachal Pradesh & Maharashtra. In 2007, Shri. Rajde succeeded in creating an innovative and revolutionary platform that could integrate multiple services on a single platform viz., S-Commerce (Service – Commerce). 

With Shri. Shapoorji Pallonji Mistry seed funding the venture, Shri. Rajde started Suvidhaa Infoserve, India’s first and largest multi service retail organisation that aggregates and commoditises a wide array of G2C/B2C services and delivers them via franchised neighbourhood stores at the consumer’s doorstep. Impressed by the concept and convinced by the viability & sustainability of the business model, two major global venture capital firms viz., Norwest Venture Partners, USA & Reliance Technology Ventures, India, invested in Suvidhaa in its formative year itself. 

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Under Shri. Rajde’s leadership, Suvidhaa has build up a mammoth network of 18,000 Suvidhaa points and is present in more than 400 cities across India.

About Suvidhaa Infoserve Pvt Ltd (SIPL):
Suvidhaa Infoserve Pvt. Ltd. a company, floated to aggregate, commoditize and distribute the services in most convenient form to the consumers. Suvidhaa provides multiple services under one roof in most convenient form to the consumers.

The motto of the company is to give convenience and value to all its customers who are looking for travel service like Railway ticket, Air, Bus, hotel, utility bill payments, telecom products, entertainment, financial services like Insurance, Loans, investments, e-Governance and Lifestyle related services. Company is committed to develop new strategies and influence business transformations with smart thinking expertise. Suvidhaa’s business expertise aims to address the prevailing gaps in various service sectors. The company uses the technology platform to deliver the services giving an advantage to common man by way of high performance, saving of time & money and higher customer satisfaction.

Suvidhaa currently powers above 18000 local neighbourhood convenience stores spread across 20 states in over 400 cities/ towns. The Suvidhaa Point is consisting of Kirana Store /Mobile Store / Medicals Store / STD Booth / Cyber Cafe / Travel agent and other categories of neighborhood stores. The main premise of this platform is to bring convenience to customers near his house.

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First Published: Feb 22 2010 | 7:34 PM IST

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