Sangli students set Guinness record for largest lezim dance

7,338 students of the schools run by Sangli Shikshan Sanstha set the world record of forming the largest lezim dance here today.
Their feat was registered in the Guinness Book of World Records and a certificate was given to the organisers at the venue.
The event had been organised by Sangli Shikshan Sanstha, at the Chhatrapati Shivaji stadium Sangli Maharashtra, here this morning on the occasion of the Republic Day.
The students dressed in their school dress, composed of boys and girls aged between 10 and 16 years. They were from eighteen schools of the Sangli Shikshan Sanstha.
Nikhil Shukla, a representative of the Guinness Book of World Records awarded awarded the certificate of achievement, organiser of the event Vijay Bhide said.

The Sangli students have broken the largest lezim dance record, earlier set by the 6,396 students of the Shikshan Prasarak Mandal Akluj and Sangramsinh Mitra Mandal (both India) in Akluj, on 30 November 2009.
Lezim is a folk dance form of Maharashtra, in which dancers carry a small musical instrument with jingling cymbals, which is called the lezim.