UAE students set world record with largest 'human boat', dedicate it to Jawaharlal Nehru

Students at an Indian school in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) recently set a world record by posing as a 'human boat' to mark the 128th birth anniversary of India's first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru, Gulf News reported.

A total of 4,882 students from the India International School of the Pace Education Group participated in the event by wearing the colours of the UAE national flag — black, red, green, and white — at a sports complex in Sharjah. The children entered Guinness World Records by forming the largest image composed by humans, which from a bird's- eye perspective looked like a boat in the colours of the Gulf country, the daily reported. The students, from grades one to eight, will receive a certificate from Guinness World Records, it said.

Principal Manju Reji said,

It is a great achievement for our students. It is probably a once-in-a-lifetime experience for them. Their life has to go a long way like a boat sailing in an ocean. And the boat is a symbol of the UAE's heritage too. As a symbolic image, we chose the boat for this attempt.

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UAE National Day is coming up, and the school decided to use the colours of the flag to simultaneously celebrate Children's Day as well.

With inputs from IANS.

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