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13,000 tribal women set Dhimsa dance record for Modi
Telegraph India··3 Aug
Over 13,000 tribal women and girl students performed the Dhimsa dance in 433 concentric circles to welcome Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the Bhogapuram airport inauguration on July 31. Guinness World Records recognised it as the largest Dhimsa dance event, with the certificate presented to Andhra Pradesh's tribal welfare minister Gummidi Sandhya Rani at the ceremony.
Prism
What It Means For You
- Residents of northern Andhra Pradesh gain a new international airport with capacity for six million passengers annually, expandable to 40 million as demand grows.
- Students from ITDA tribal welfare schools who performed the Dhimsa dance become part of an officially recognised Guinness World Record for their community.
- Travelers in the region can expect commercial flights from Bhogapuram's new Alluri Sitarama Raju International Airport to begin on August 17.
What's Happening
- Over 13,000 tribal women and girl students performed the Dhimsa dance in 433 concentric circles to welcome PM Modi at Bhogapuram's airport inauguration on July 31.
- Guinness World Records recognised the performance as the largest Dhimsa dance event, with the certificate presented to Andhra Pradesh's tribal welfare minister.
- Modi inaugurated the Alluri Sitarama Raju International Airport, the country's second greenfield airport to open this year after Uttar Pradesh's Jewar airport.
A Tribal Dance Tradition Gets A National Stage
- The dancers were mostly Class VIII to X students from schools run by the Integrated Tribal Development Agency, travelling from regions including Paderu and Parvathipuram.
- The Bhogapuram airport has an annual passenger capacity of six million, expandable to 40 million, with commercial flights scheduled to start August 17.
- Jewar airport in Uttar Pradesh, which began commercial operations on June 15, was the country's first greenfield airport to open this year.
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