Fiji To Take Part In Miss India Worldwide Pageant

Fiji will take part in this year’s Miss India Worldwide Pageant.
After a lapse of five years, an international pageant for Fijian women of Indian descent will return to Fiji.
Miss India Fiji National Director Rajnit Raju says Fiji last took part in the world wide pageant in 2012.

The Miss Indian Fiji, last won in 2012 by Sheryl Kumar who was a student then and is an accountant now, will begin auditions this weekend.

Pageant director, Ranjit Raju who initially brought the pageant to Fiji in 2009 when it was won by local media company director Naziah Ali is once again behind the venture.
Ms Ali and her friend Aliya Jan took over the venture when it was last operated in 2012.
Mr Raju confirmed the pageant organisers would announce more details at a press launch to be held at the Indian High Commission at 11am on Thursday.
Meanwhile he said the first round of auditions will take place on Sunday July 30.
The Miss India Worldwide pageant began in 1990 and invites representatives from all over the world who have to have a certain percentage Indian parentage to qualify to participate.
_”This is the World’s largest beauty pageant in the world, it was founded in NY. About forty countries take part every year and the motive of this pageant is to promote Indian Art and talent.”
Raju says auditions for Miss India Fiji will begin next month in Suva.
The Miss India Fiji Pageant 2017 will be held on the 15th of September at the Grand Pacific Hotel in Suva
The Miss India Fiji 2017 will represent Fiji to the Miss India Worldwide Pageant which will be held on the 8th of October in New York.
Photo: Miss India Fiji 2012, Sheryl Kumar
 
(Source: Fiji Broadcasting Corporation [FBC] 27 July 2017)