Child welfare council applies for world record

Ravi S Singh

Tribune News Service

New Delhi, February 2

The Haryana State Council for Child Welfare (HSCCW) has applied for the Guinness Book of World Records and the Limca Book of Records with the maximum participation of children in its 2020 edition of the annual Bal Mahotsav.

“In all, 4,96,850 children participated in the event organised online. Of them, 3,47,361 (69.9 per cent) were girls,” HSCCW honarary general secretary Krishan Dhull said here on Tuesday.

The participation in the previous edition of Bal Mahostsav was 50,000.

The event was organised in two phases. In phase I, the event was organised in districts from October 10 to November 10 last year. The state-level function was organised from January 16 to 20.

Haryana Governor Satyadev Narayan Arya presided over the concluding ceremony of the event. Several competitive activities, including sporting and cultural, were organised.

Dhull said, “It was a challenge to organise the event in times of the Covid pandemic and with lockdown guidelines in place.”

About Rs 22 lakh was distributed as prize money to around 13,000 winner participants at the district-level events, while Rs 40 lakh was distributed to 592 winners at the state-level function.