MARGAO: Amanda Vas from Varca is amongst the top three shortlisted for India’s Miss TGPC, which is the first worldwide online beauty pageant. Its finals will be held on September 28, 2019 at MM Time Machine Academy, Mumbai.
The other two who will compete for ‘The Great Pageant Community’ title are Kritya Karda and Tanvi Kharote.
For this competition, the panel first shortlisted the applications received and the candidates had to then send different videos of them in party wear, style icon wear, ethnic wear. They also had to answer various questions put forth to them. The entire selection was done through YouTube.
Initially, 51 candidates were selected from the around 1,800 applicant and from here, the top 20 was selected. Amanda’s ‘Miss Golden Heart’ video grabbed attention as it was relating to tree plantation as she has planted around 50 trees around her campus at Chowgule College where she is presently studying.
Being the Elite Panel’s choice, Amanda got into the top 10 directly and was the first to be announced as the top 3 contestants.
Daughter of Isidorio Vas and Jennifer D’Souza, Amanda did her primary education at Vidya Vikas Academy and High School at King’s School and is now studying biotechnology at Chowgule College. She is also a trained Bharatanatyam dancer and has represented the college in basketball at the district level.
