Coimbatore Corporation’s modified Guinness Record event on August 3

Coimbatore Corporation has got a fresh date to enter the Guinness Book of World Records - August 3. A communiqué from the Guinness team said that on August 3 the Corporation could organise its event, the attempt to enter the book.

But this time the civic body will not attempt at breaking a record but setting a new one in a different category. Sources privy to the development told The Hindu that the civic body’s attempt would be under the ‘Largest Recycling Lesson/Initiative’ head, where the civic body would train as many people as possible on recycling of waste.

The record would depend on the number of people who would participate in the half-an-hour session and follow it up with segregating waste in the week thereafter.

To this end, the Corporation would join hands with schools, colleges, professional bodies and industries to hold the sessions across the city, the sources said and added that to hold the session, the Corporation would have to first train the master trainers. This task would begin soon.

The change in the head under which the Corporation had planned to enter the Guinness Book of World Records comes after withdrawn attempts at entering the Book under the largest congregation of people segregating/collecting waste category.

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The Corporation had initially planned that it would rope in school and college students and members of the general public, who would gather at various locations in the city to collect litter.

The Corporation had to cancel the event in the last minute in February this year. This only exposed its poor planning. Then the civic body said that it would make the attempt in June. That too did not happen. Then the authorities said that they had written to the Guinness managers to try setting a record for segregated collection.

The latest development is a fallout of this latest decision.