Homemaker Surmeet wins Rs 50 million in KBC

MUMBAI: A 37-year-old homemaker, Surmeet Kaur Sawhney, has won Rs 50 million in the sixth season of a popular television game show Kaun Banega Crorepati (KBC).

Surmeet is the first woman to win a crore (one crore is 10 million) or more in the superstar Amitabh Bachchan-hosted game show, based on UK?s ?Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?.

She is 12th standard passed and takes tuitions to supplement her small time actor husband?s income. She originally hails from Punjab and is now a resident of Mumbai where she stays in a rented house along with her husband and two daughters.

The episode In which Surmeet won the millions will be aired next week.

The earlier winners of Rs 10 million or more were Harshvardhan Navathe from Mumbai (Rs 10 million in the first season in 2000) and Sushil Kumar from Bihar (Rs 50 million in the fifth season in 2011).

Surmeet plans to donate a part of the money she has won for some Punjabi religious purposes.