HARYANA GIRL CROWNED MISS WORLD
India’s Manushi Chhillar on Saturday won the Miss World 2017 crown in China. The 20-year-old from Haryana’s Jhajjar, who is a medical student in Sonepat, edged out other top four contestants from England, France, Kenya and Mexico. “The winner of Miss World 2017 is Miss India Manushi Chhillar,” said the announcement on the pageant’s official Twitter handle as well as on its Facebook page. The first and the second runners-up were Miss England Stephanie Hill and Miss Mexico Andrea Meza. Chhillar is the sixth Indian to win the crown, which was first won by Reita Faria back in 1966. A trained Indian classical dancer, Chhillar has a passion for outdoor sports and actively participates in paragliding, bungee jumping, snorkelling and scuba diving, besides sketching and painting. PTI
ROHTAK : As soon as Manushi Chhillar was crowned the Miss World-2017 title in the Chinese city of Sanya on Saturday, her uncle’s house in Rohtak was abuzz with celebrations. She is the first Indian woman to bag the title after Priyanka Chopra won the pageant in 2000.
“Manaushi is gifted. Since childhood she liked playing with dolls and dress herself. But she also wanted to serve the people. Even though she has become Miss World she will go on to complete her medical studies,” Manushi’s aunt Dr Usha Chhillar and her professor of dermatology at the BPS Medical College.
The family members said she is a good poet, painter and Kuchipudi dancer. She is working on her project on menstrual hygiene as well.
Manushi, who originally belongs to Bamnoli village in Jhajjar district and is a thirdyear MBBS student at BPS Medical College for Women, Khanpur Kalan, in Sonepat, wants to be a cardiac surgeon.
Manushi comes from a family of doctors. Her father, Dr Mitrabasu Chhillar, is an endocrinologist at the Institute of Nuclear Medicine and Allied Sciences (INMAS), Delhi, and mother, Dr Neelam Chhillar, is a doctor at the Institute of Human Behavior and Allied Sciences (IHBAS), Delhi. Both her parents are presently with Manushi in China.
Manushi did her schooling from Bengaluru and Delhi. She scored 96% in Class 12 boards and topped the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) in English examination.
Her uncle, Dr Dinesh Chillar, who is posted at the Gohana civil hospital, said she has taken a break from studies for one year and will continue with her third year in next batch. "Her college is extremely supportive and celebrated all her achievements," he said.