Femina Miss India prelims at IIT-Kharagpur
IIT Kharagpur will hold the preliminary rounds of the country's biggest beauty pageant - Femina Miss India - on its campus in 2014.
The pre-regional round of the Femina Miss India beauty contest will be held on the IIT Kharagpur campus as part of the institute's annual high wattage Spring Fest.
The organizers have slotted the two-hour beauty show on the final day of the three-day cultural and musical extravaganza that starts on January 30 has factored in the two-hour beauty show on the final day. The institute has already launched a website in association with Femina and registrations have started for the pre-regional round (east) that will see contestants from Bengal, Bihar, Odisha, Chattisgarh, Eastern UP, Jharkhand and the seven North Eastern states.
The Femina beauty pageant had earlier helped helped celebrity models and actors like Sushmita Sen, Aishwarya Rai Bachchan and Priyanka Chopra to shoot to famewill hold the mandatory pre-regional round auditions for the east zone at the Kharagpur campus and shortlist finalists for the regional rounds.
This is the first time that this mandatory round is being organized happening in association with an educational campus. "We wanted Spring Fest to catch the national eyeballs and hence decided on this tie-up. We are happy that it clicked," said Ujjwal Murarka, a student and a member of the core organizing team.
The Spring Fest website hosted by the institute says that any unmarried Indian girl between the age group of 18 and 25, who is at least 5 feet 6 inches tall, can register for the contest. Already, 150 applications have come.
Though the organizing team under instructions from Femina maintains confidentiality about who these applicants are, they said that several girls from the campus itself will take part. Every hostel at the institute sports posters announcing the pageant.
The contestants will have to participate in a black evening gown round where the judges will look not only for skin deep beauty but also things like confidence and presence of mind. The three finalists of the pre-regional rounds here will get direct entry to the regional rounds.
"Yes, it is a bold move on the part of the students. Times have changed and fests these days are becoming high profile. However, all's well that ends well," said director of IIT Kharagpur P P Chakraborty.
Though the panel of judges is yet to be finalised, The team of judges will be led by Shrishti Rana, Miss Asia Pacific 2013.
The pre-regional round of the Femina Miss India beauty contest will be held on the IIT Kharagpur campus as part of the institute's annual high wattage Spring Fest.
The organizers have slotted the two-hour beauty show on the final day of the three-day cultural and musical extravaganza that starts on January 30 has factored in the two-hour beauty show on the final day. The institute has already launched a website in association with Femina and registrations have started for the pre-regional round (east) that will see contestants from Bengal, Bihar, Odisha, Chattisgarh, Eastern UP, Jharkhand and the seven North Eastern states.
The Femina beauty pageant had earlier helped helped celebrity models and actors like Sushmita Sen, Aishwarya Rai Bachchan and Priyanka Chopra to shoot to famewill hold the mandatory pre-regional round auditions for the east zone at the Kharagpur campus and shortlist finalists for the regional rounds.
This is the first time that this mandatory round is being organized happening in association with an educational campus. "We wanted Spring Fest to catch the national eyeballs and hence decided on this tie-up. We are happy that it clicked," said Ujjwal Murarka, a student and a member of the core organizing team.
The Spring Fest website hosted by the institute says that any unmarried Indian girl between the age group of 18 and 25, who is at least 5 feet 6 inches tall, can register for the contest. Already, 150 applications have come.
Though the organizing team under instructions from Femina maintains confidentiality about who these applicants are, they said that several girls from the campus itself will take part. Every hostel at the institute sports posters announcing the pageant.
The contestants will have to participate in a black evening gown round where the judges will look not only for skin deep beauty but also things like confidence and presence of mind. The three finalists of the pre-regional rounds here will get direct entry to the regional rounds.
"Yes, it is a bold move on the part of the students. Times have changed and fests these days are becoming high profile. However, all's well that ends well," said director of IIT Kharagpur P P Chakraborty.
Though the panel of judges is yet to be finalised, The team of judges will be led by Shrishti Rana, Miss Asia Pacific 2013.
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