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Union Minister Prakash Javadekar congratulated all students, saying they had made solar lamps with their hands and hearts.
New Delhi: In a unique homage to Mahatma
Gandhi on his 150th birth anniversary, young students from Delhi and NCR
created two world records on Wednesday -- the largest number of assembly and
lighting of solar lamps and environmental sustainability lessons to the largest
number of students at one place.
Union Minister Prakash Javadekar
congratulated all students, saying they had made solar lamps with their hands
and hearts. The first world record was in the category of environmental
sustainability lessons to the largest number of students at one place with
close to 5,000 children participating, an official release said.
The second record was of the largest
number of assembly and lighting of solar lamps, it said. The number of
participants in the solar lams record is more than 5,000 and an exact number
will be released by the officials from the Guinness Book of World Records who
were present at the event, the release said.
Javadekar, while speaking at the
event, called for creating one's own oxygen bank by planting at least seven
trees during one's lifetime. The minister expressed happiness over the fact
that 79 countries have become members of the International Solar Alliance. He
also administered the oath of non-violence towards the environment to all
students.
Speaking on the occasion, Power
Minister R K Singh said the world is facing a serious threat from climate
change and everyone should take the pledge to leave a better world for our
future generations. He further said that the future world will be a world of
the producer and not a world of the consumer as every home will produce power
from solar energy.
