The 54th edition of the Femina Miss India pageant is on its road to the finale and is scheduled to be held in the month of June. This year, the pageant has brought few major changes in its format and they are all worth mentioning. In its 54th year, fbb Colors Femina Miss India will be touring across 30 states which would be further segregated into two categories, State Auditions and State Crowning in Each Zone.

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The first zonal auditions were conducted in the southern India. The South Zone auditions successfully culminated with the announcement of the state finalists. The Southern state finalists went through a final round of competition, wherein one representative from each state was crowned as the winner and will now represent their respective states at the finals of Femina Miss India 2017.

At the south zonal crowning ceremony held at Bengaluru on 5th March 2017, representatives of Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Telangana were crowned. The South zone finalists were trained and mentored by Miss World runner up, Parvathy Omanakuttan. During the south zonal crowning ceremony, Srishti Vyakaranam was titled as Femina Miss India Andhra Pradesh 2017, Mannat Singh was crowned as Femina Miss India Kerala 2017, Simran Choudhary was adjudged as Femina Miss India Telangana 2017, Ruhika Dass was titled as Femina Miss India Karnataka 2017 and Sherlin Seth was crowned as Femina Miss India Tamil Nadu 2017.

Another change that is interestingly noticeable is that the Femina Miss India Organisation has waved off the Bikini round for audition. So, there will be no Swimsuit competition for the aspirants this year on audition level.

The organisation has also brought down the height criteria to 5.5” and above. Since, the Miss World Organisation itself states that they don’t really take the height into consideration while selecting the winner, it was only wise to bring down the age criteria down. This will again increase the probability to find a suitable contender to represent at the Miss World pageant.

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