diff --git a/.vscode/settings.json b/.vscode/settings.json
deleted file mode 100644
index 37b6db5b..00000000
--- a/.vscode/settings.json
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,6 +0,0 @@
-{
-    "editor.fontFamily": "'JetBrains Mono'",
-    "workbench.colorTheme": "GitHub Dark Default",
-    "workbench.preferredDarkColorTheme": "Default Dark+",
-    "workbench.preferredHighContrastColorTheme": "Default High Contrast"
-}
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/components/MultipleSelectList.tsx b/components/MultipleSelectList.tsx
index 1e8e3326..ad0ab1a1 100644
--- a/components/MultipleSelectList.tsx
+++ b/components/MultipleSelectList.tsx
@@ -42,13 +42,14 @@ const MultipleSelectList: React.FC<MultipleSelectListProps> = ({
         badgeTextStyles,
         checkBoxStyles,
         save = 'key',
-        dropdownShown = false
+        dropdownShown = false,
+        defaultOption
     }) => {
 
     const oldOption = React.useRef(null)
     const [_firstRender,_setFirstRender] = React.useState<boolean>(true);
     const [dropdown, setDropdown] = React.useState<boolean>(dropdownShown);
-    const [selectedval, setSelectedVal] = React.useState<any>([]);
+    const [selectedval, setSelectedVal] = React.useState<any>(defaultOption);
     const [height,setHeight] = React.useState<number>(350)
     const animatedvalue = React.useRef(new Animated.Value(0)).current;
     const [filtereddata,setFilteredData] = React.useState(data);