Delhi students set 2 Guinness world records for environment protection

Students from Delhi-NCR region created two Guinness Book world records for environment protection on occasion of Mahatma Gandhi's 150th birth anniversary, an official statement said on Wednesday.

first record was in category of 'environmental sustainability lessons to largest number of students at one place' wherein close to 5,000 children participated, Ministry of New and Renewable Energy said in a release.

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second record is of ' largest number of assembly and lighting of solar lamps' in which more than 5,000 students took part. Officials from Guinness Book of World Records were present at event. Environment Minister Prakash Javekar congratulated students and called for creating own oxygen bank by planting at least seven trees during one's lifetime.

He also ministered oath of n-violence towards environment to all students.

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"We all should take a pledge that we'll leave a better world for our future generations. future world will be world of producer, t world of consumer as every home will produce power from solar," Singh said.

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