As part of the 71st Independence Day celebration, the Beauty & Aesthetics Society of Nagaland (BASN) visited children with special needs of Jo Foundation, Agri Colony on August 17. As the school has declared holiday on August 15, the society could not visit the school on the scheduled day. During the visit, a six member BASN team led by its president, Toshi Lemtur have distributed stationeries and sweets to all the 135 students and interacted with them. The society has also donated some stationery for the school office through its administrator. Meanwhile, the Society has informed that the campus audition for the Miss Nagaland 2017 will be held at Sazolie College on August 21; St Joseph College, Jakhama on August 25 and Science College, Jotsoma on August 26. Therefore, interested candidates who are a bonafide citizen of Nagaland between the aged of 18-25 years as on December 2017 with minimum 5ft 5 inches tall (without heels) are invited to participate in the audition. It further informed that the open preliminary audition will be held on September 6 at Ura Hotel, Kohima from 10 am with last date for submission of details on August 31. In this regard, interested candidates are informed to mail their details such as name, age, height, vital statistics, contact details and residence address along with two photographs (one close-up and one full length) at basnkma@gmail.com. District Beauty Pageant title holders, it informed will get direct entry to the main pageant while the runners up will go through the same audition process to qualify for the Miss Nagaland Pageant 2017.