On Kartika Purnima, which comes around the end of October and November, people of Odisha gather near banks of Mahanadi, Brahmani river, other river banks, ponds, water tanks and sea shores to float miniature toy boats, made of colored paper, dried banana tree barks, and cork, as a symbolic gesture of their ancestors’ voyage.
Cuttack Baliyatra has created it into the Guinness record once achieving the achievement of constructing twenty 2,000 paper boats in thirty five minutes. Throughout the Baliyatra pageant, quite a pair of, 100 students from twenty two faculties created paper boats and created a record at an occasion organized at Barabati bowl by the district administration and Cuttack Municipal Corporation.
The world record was tried to achieve international recognition for Cuttack’s Baliyatra, the most important outdoor trade truthful within the state.The headquarters of the Guinness World Records in London was contacted for an effort to form 10,000 paper boats in mere quarter-hour. The record authorities had issued the protocol for organizing the event and also the administration roped in around 3,000 students World Health Organization have additionally imparted coaching on creating paper boats. The size and weight of the paper boats were prescribed by the record authorities. The Guinness record was awarded for ‘the most of the people folding artistic production sculptures simultaneously’. The govt once considering all the aspects has extended the truthful by sooner or later.
