Krishna college students create record

The students created 2,493 handmade pollution masks in 30 minutes

March 04, 2014 11:53 am | Updated May 19, 2016 06:11 am IST - COIMBATORE:

Santikar Young (right), Designated Adjudicator, South Asia Elite World Records, handing over the ‘Elite World Records’ certificate to S. Annadurai (second left), principal, Sri Krishna College of Engineering and Technology, and L. Sivakumar (left), vice-principal, for the record the college set in making the maximum number of handmade pollution masks within a given time. Photo: S. Siva Saravanan

Santikar Young (right), Designated Adjudicator, South Asia Elite World Records, handing over the ‘Elite World Records’ certificate to S. Annadurai (second left), principal, Sri Krishna College of Engineering and Technology, and L. Sivakumar (left), vice-principal, for the record the college set in making the maximum number of handmade pollution masks within a given time. Photo: S. Siva Saravanan

Students of the Sri Krishna College of Engineering and Technology have created a record for making 2,493 handmade pollution masks in 30 minutes, says a release from the college. Elite World Records has recognised the feat and issued a certificate.

Attempt The release said that the students made the attempt as part of the Entrepreneurship Week 2014 celebrations, which the National Entrepreneurship Network promoted. Santikar Young, Designated Adjudicator, South Asia, Elite World Records, was present to judge the attempt.

The students created 2,493 masks between 11 a.m. to 11.30 a.m.

The release quoting S. Malarvizhi, Chairperson and Managing Trustee, said that the objective was creation of awareness in the people that pollution prevention masks could be easily made.

The college principal and the vice-principal received the record certificate from the designated adjudicator, the release added.

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