Cachar SVEEP campaign sets ‘rangoli’ record

The Systematic Voters’ Education and Electoral Participation (SVEEP) campaign has yielded a ‘rangoli’ (art on the floor or ground) more than 8 km long in southern Assam’s Cachar district.

Scores of students, members of women self-help groups, tea plantation workers, security personnel and other volunteers joined the district’s Deputy Commissioner Keerthi Jalli in painting a road within the Barkhola Assembly constituency on Sunday. “The current world record for the longest rangoli or street art is 4 km. We did a little more than 8 km,” she told The Hindu, adding that local motifs and messages on voting, combating drugs, planting saplings were painted on the road.