Pune: The Dhole Patil Education Society (DPES) campus in Kharadi set a new Guinness World Record for the “Most People Performing Diya Rotations Simultaneously” when 1,724 women devotees performed aarti to Ganesh on Wednesday evening.
The institute broke the earlier record set on the banks of Sarayu River during Diwali by the Uttar Pradesh Government’s Sarayu Aarti Samiti, Ayodhya, last year.
Dressed in traditional attire and holding oil lamps, the women participants, including Indian and international students, faculty members, and devotees, performed the aarti in unison.
The record attempt was supervised by Swapnil Dangrikar, senior adjudicator, Guinness World Records, who later handed over the official certificate to Sagar Ulhas Dhole Patil of DPES.