Over 5,000 students here today formed a human chain to create awareness about their righ to vote and entered two record books for the feat.
The students of Sree Krishna Institutions joined hands and formed human chain stretching to three KMs on the city's main thoroughfare, thus gaining entry into India Record Academy (IRA), Mumbai and Asia Record Academy (ARA), Singapore.
Vasudevan of IRA and Francis Williams (ARA), being the adjudicators, handed over the certificates to the institutions.
District Collector Archana Patnaik inaugurated the human chain and also distribution of pamphlets on importance of voting in a democracy.