Aastha Shukla was crowned Ms LAD 2026 while Ayushi Deshmukh was adjudged as first runner-up and Humeesha Navneet second runner-up. The event of the Orange City Personality Contest Miss LAD 2025-26, a culminating event of the grand AURA Fest, was held at TBRAN’S Mundle Platinum Jubilee Hall. The 29 contestants from final year of different faculty were selected during auditions.

 

During the arduous training period of 3 months the participants underwent many sessions of training by prominent trainers – Dr Harsha Jharia, Sonal Trivedi Malkan, and Shivani Joshi. They were ably assisted by Soumya Mahile, former contestant of Miss LAD Dr Meenakshi Kulkarni guided the students on varipus personality aspects. The guest speakers were Vidarbha’s iconic personality and noted Pathologist Dr Vartika Patil, Dr Kavita Jadhao, Chief coordinator of Bhosala Institute, Dr Shishir Palsapure. The programme was compeered by, Anushka Jain, Hayaa Kazi, Sarah Geevarghese, Kritika Shukla, Devika Khadia, Shreshtha Chaudhary and Gargi Puranik. The anchors were professionally trained by Dr Payal Hiranwar and Dr Aboli Vyas. The in-house DJs were Kashish Jain and Diya Waghwani. The in house social media expert was Sharmishtha Shahane.

 

Dr Kavita Jadhao, Vaibhav Ganjapure, Dr Shishir Palsapure, Dr Vartika Patil, Gayatri Vatsalya and Sneha Dhobley were the judges. The sub-titles were Beautiful hair –Kanjika Shriwas Ms Talented –Cherisa Gupta Ms. Photogenic - Priyanka Runghe Ms. Beautiful Skin –Batool Neemuchwala Ms. Beautiful Smile - Nikita Usrethe Ms. Perfect 10- Nayanika Bhattacharjee Ms. Congeniality –Akanksha Tiwari The Programme Director and event coordinator was Dr Harsha Jharia, CAO, Womens’ Education Society. The programme was supported by LAD Aura team lead by Dr Ahinsa Tirpude. Director Dr Nanda Rathi, the Principal Dr Pooja Pathak and Vice Principals Dr Sumita Sapre and Dr Ruta Dhamadhikari guided all.