The Rotary Club, Brahmapur organised a mega public awareness campaign on “Complete Polio Eradication” under the chairmanship of club president Tapas Panigrahy at the Brahmapur Stadium here on the World Polio Day on Tuesday.
The campaign made a record as about 1,500 students stood on the outline of a giant footprint that fostered the polio eradication campaign. It created a world record of largest image of a human foot and dound place in Asia Book of Records. Students from the St Vincents Convent School, Delhi Public School and Vedvyas College participated and broke the current record of 1,290 people.
Indian Book of Records and Asia Book of Records officials Santunu Chauhan and Bhusan Chauhan supervised and recorded the event and declared Asia Book of Records and Indian Book of records.
Among others, District Collector Prem Chandra Chaudhary, MP Siddhant Mohapatra, Rotary District 3262 official Ajay Agarwal, district Governor Dilip Patnaik and public image district chair Prof Narayan Mishra were present.