Daughter of Auto-Rickshaw Driver Becomes Femina Miss India 2020 Runner-Up
Being a rickshaw driver's daughter, I never had the opportunity to attend school as I had to start working in my teens, says Manya Singh
MUMBAI: In what it could be a dream for a daughter of an autorickshaw driver whose aspiration to be a model finally come true after the results of the VLCC Femina Miss India 2020. In one such inspiring story is of Manya Singh daughter of an autorickshaw driver Omprakash Singh from Uttar Pradesh who overcame innumerable struggles to bag the runner-up title of the prestigious Femina Miss India beauty pageant.
Manya was born in Uttar Pradesh’s Kushinagar. Her parents and Manya worked hard to put herself through Lohiya Inter College in Sahwa, UP. After completing her schooling, Manya joined Mumbai’s Thakur College of Science and Commerce. Currently, she is preparing to pursue Management Studies as the Femina Miss India runner-up considers education as the ‘strongest weapon.’ Meanwhile, Telangana’s Manasa Varanasi won the title Femina Miss India 2020 while Manika Sheokand from Haryana bagged the Femina Miss Grand India 2020 title.
In a post shared by the official Instagram account of Femina Miss India in December 2020, Mansi described the hurdles she had to overcome for completing her studies. She used to study in the day and earned by washing dishes in the evening and working at a call centre at night.
