Nashik: Youngsters of a Nashik-based Navakar social group has made a record for making 21 feet tall, 10 ft wide flower bouquet.  This artificial flower bouquet made with eco-friendly materials will compete to break an earlier recorded 15.5 feet tall flower bouquet.

Made on the occasion of the group’s founder Paras Lohade’s birthday as a present, the bouquet has used cloth instead of paper to make the flowers and 450 mild steel. It is wrapped in 200 meters of green colored flex and is decorated with 25 meters of golden ribbons. The bouquet being an eco-friendly one, was displayed at Chopda Lawns on Thursday.

Vishal Kochar, one of the 12 members who made the bouquet said, “This bouquet is special not only because of its size but also for the eco-friendly material used in it. While creating the world’s largest bouquet, we decided to avoid natural flowers, leaves and branches. We used colourful cotton cloth, handmade paper and steel rods instead,”

The group members, who are mostly college students and some professionals worked for over one week on the bouquet.

“The expert team of World’s Amazing Records will be in Nashik soon to review this bouquet. The previous record was 15.5 ft, we are confident to secure a new record,” Kochar said. “The founder of the group, Paras Lohade already holds 11 world records; nothing could have been a better gift for his birthday than another record.”

“I entered the Guinness Book of World Records by designing attires of Mahatma Gandhi for 891 children at a time in 2012. In 2013, I made a book pyramid of 26,000 books in New Delhi and bagged another record . Our group has achieved 11 world records from 2012 to 2015,” he said.

The bouquet was accompanied by another initiative where the amount raised through the sale was donated to the Padasad School of Deaf and Dumb in CIDCO area.