Miss Nepal: 2016

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The Miss Nepal contest is South Asia’s second oldest and ranks among the world’s better established annual pageants. Volunteers have painstakingly reconstructed the history of the Miss Nepal pageant. If you feel that these memories need to be preserved, you can update or correct any article in this series, and/ or send the names/ dignified biographical details/ photographs of any of the national or even regional finalists, related to their lives before, during or after this contest, to the Facebook page, Indpaedia.com. All information used will be duly acknowledged.

The pageant

18 finalists

The had auditioned for the pageant from various cities of Nepal, including Dharan, Biratnagar, Chitwan, Butwal and Pokhara

Organised by The Hidden Treasure

Venue: hotel de l’Annapurna, DurbarMarg, Kathmandu.

Date: April 08, 2016

The queens

Asmi Shrestha Miss Nepal 2016 (represents Nepal at Miss World)

Roshani Khatri (first runner-up) Miss Nepal Earth 2016

Barsha Lekhi (second runner-up) Miss Nepal International 2016.

Top five finalists

Namrata Shrestha

Roshini Khatri

Asmi Shrestha

Srijana Regmi

Barsha Lekhi.

Sub-titles

Ashma KC Miss Fascino

Ashma KC Miss Athletic

Asmi Shrestha Miss Photogenic

Asmi Shrestha Miss Intellectual

Ansu KC Miss Friendship

Prerana Adhikari Miss Scholar

Prerana Adhikari Beautiful Skin

Roshini Khatri Miss Confidence and Personality

Srijana Regmi Miss Talent

Partima Dawadi Beauty with Purpose

Ayshma Shrestha Bubbly Popular Choice Award

Jury

Rajendra Thapa

Asmi Rana

Laxman Humagain

Babita Basnet

Ganga Jung Thapa

Indira Joshi

Sachin Shrestha

Nabina Lama

Jivan Luitel

Sangita Shrestha

Sneha Rana

Prizes

Miss Nepal was also awarded a Yamaha Scooter and Rs 100,000 along with the title.

Brains from the beauties

Mausam Shah wrote in The Himalayan Times :

Senior litterateur Rajendra Thapa, a jury member, asked the final question in the last round of the competition. The question was: Do you support quota reservation for women? Is it good or bad or should there be reservation for a certain time?

The contestants were asked to pick one option among three and justify the position with logical reasons.

This was the question which determined the winner as Shrestha’s short and sweet answer won the hearts of jury members.

Shrestha had replied that women should be given chance and they have already proved it as Nepal has its first woman President and two CNN heroes.

See also

Miss Nepal: the contest Miss Nepal: 1994 Miss Nepal: 1995 Miss Nepal: 1996 Miss Nepal: 1997 Miss Nepal: 1998 Miss Nepal: 1999 Miss Nepal: 2000, 2001 Miss Nepal: 2002 Miss Nepal: 2003 Miss Nepal: 2004 Miss Nepal: 2005, 2006 Miss Nepal: 2007, 2008 Miss Nepal: 2009 Miss Nepal: 2010 Miss Nepal: 2011 Miss Nepal: 2012 Miss Nepal: 2013 Miss Nepal: 2014 Miss Nepal: 2015 Miss Nepal: 2016 Miss Nepal: 2017