Deoria village rejoices over Manya’s success

Gorakhpur: The school and village of Manya Singh, the daughter of an autorickshaw driver who is now VLCC Femina Miss India 2020 runner up, has lauded her achievement against all odds.
The family now lives in Mumbai. Her father Om Prakash Singh is an auto-rickshaw driver and mother a fashion designer. People in her ancestral village, Vikrampur, distributed sweets and after receiving news of Manya’s achievement.
Manya described her tough days on social media how she used to work and study. “We are very happy about Manya’s success against all difficulties. She completed class 10 from Lohia Inter College in Vikrampur. She was a diligent girl and very good in studies,” her school manager Anil Singh said on Saturday.
“Manya was always good in studies. She was enthusiastic and used to take part in extracurricular activities. She was a very helpful and down to earth girl. It is really a happy moment for us that a girl of our college won the coveted title,” he added.
He further said, “The entire college is celebrating and no doubt a positive energy is prevailing in the entire area and inspiring youth that success only needs hard work and anybody could be successful even in adverse conditions.”
“Manya’s family left their ancestral house in 2009 and started living in Kushinagar’s Hata area near Vikrampur. Om Prakash went to Mumbai where he worked as an auto-rickshaw driver. The family faced challenges of financial constraint and in 2014 they shifted to Mumbai,” said Abhishek Singh, village head of Vikrampur.
Her uncle Arvind Singh, also a resident of Vikrampur, congratulated her on her huge success while expressing happiness on Saturday.