Miss Nepal
Logo of the Miss Nepal Beauty Pageant.
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| Formation | 1994 |
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| Type | Beauty pageant |
| Headquarters | Kathmandu |
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Membership
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Current Miss World (1997–) Miss Asia Pacific (1994–2005, 2016–) Miss Earth (2005–) Miss International (2010–) |
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Official language
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Nepali & English |
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Key people
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Founder chairman Gopal Sunder Lal Kakshapati |
| Website | missnepal |
Miss Nepal is a national beauty pageant in Nepal. The winner is sent to Miss World contest while the 1st and 2nd runners-up are sent to the Miss Earth and Miss International pageants respectively. Asmi Shrestha is the reigning Miss Nepal 2016. She will represent Nepal at Miss World 2016.Roshni Khatri is Miss Nepal Earth 2016 and Barsha Lekhi is Miss Nepal International 2016.
Nepal also sends representatives in other minor global pageants such as Miss Tourism Queen International, Miss Globe International, Miss Heritage and Miss Asia Pacific World.
Ever since the pageant started from 1994, historically the winner of the Miss Nepal pageant represented the Nepal in the Miss Asia Pacific. After 1997, the Hidden Treasures collaborated with Kathmandu Jaycees and formed two pageants of Kathmandu Jacyees Miss Nepal and Hidden Treasures Miss World Nepal. From 1998 onwards, the winner of Miss Nepal has been sent to Miss World contest and the 1st runner up to Miss Asia Pacific. No contest was held in 2001 because of the Nepalese royal massacre.
From 2004, the 2nd runner up has been granted to represent Nepal in the pageant Miss Earth but it changed a year later, to 1st runner up as it had been stopped sending to Miss Asia Pacific. In 2010, the 2nd runner up has started to send to Miss International. Since 2011 onwards; the names of the 3rd runner up and 4th runner up were revealed while announcing the names of the winners on the Coronation Night.
Since 1994, every year women from age range of 19–25 years old compete on the national pageant of Miss Nepal. In which, 16 contestants are wisely chosen from across the country and they begin on 1-month training & grooming course before the final event in which they participate in lectures, social work, photoshoots, interviews and etiquette lessons. As on the coronation night which lasts up to 3 hours long, all the candidates engage on opening sequence, introduction speech after which the top 10 semi-finalists are chosen who then compete in an interview portion with the judges and evening gown and the 5 finalists are chosen. This is when the final question and answer round is held. At the end, the names of runners-up and winner are announced from live telecast in Nepal Television.
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