Udaipur, January 30, 2025 - Dr Lakshyaraj Singh Mewar, a member of the former royal family of Mewar, launched the Surya Uday Campaign yesterday by creating the largest figure of the Sun at the City Palace using solar lamps and entering the Guinness World Record. Guinness World Records honoured Dr Singh for this achievement.

This is Dr Singh's ninth Guinness World Record in various social service projects.

On this occasion, he said that the purpose of launching the Surya Uday Campaign is to distribute solar lamps to economically weaker families, lighting their homes with solar energy and initiating a live environmental conservation effort. The use of solar energy will promote environmental protection and economically weaker families will be relieved from the burden of electricity bills. Through solar energy, families will become self-reliant and no longer depend on external energy sources.

Over the past seven years, Dr Singh has established nine Guinness World Records in areas like social service, environmental conservation, women's sanitation management and education. These records, he said, were set with the intention of inspiring social service and civic responsibility… a mission that will continue.

Details of World Records

Record 1: In March 2019, he set his first Guinness World Record by donating over 3,29,000 garments to those in need. The clothes were collected from 80 cities across countries like India, Australia, USA, Oman, Sri Lanka, UAE and distributed to those in need.

Record 2: In August 2019, he set his second Guinness World Record by distributing more than 20 tonnes of stationery to students in 24 hours. He ran an educational campaign in Udaipur division for a month, distributing books, notebooks, pens, pencils, colouring books and other educational materials to students in government schools.

Record 3: In January 2020, he set his third Guinness World Record by planting over 4,000 plants in just 20 seconds under the Maharana Mewar Charitable Foundation Trust. Over 4,035 plants like Amaltas, Gulmohar, Moringa and Keshia Shyam were planted at the Manak Chowk in the City Palace to raise awareness about environmental conservation.

Record 4: In January 2021, he set his fourth Guinness World Record by distributing over 12,000 hygiene products related to women's sanitation management in just one hour. During the COVID-19 pandemic, he donated over 12,000 sanitary pads, hand sanitisers, soaps, toothbrushes and other products to promote sanitation and menstrual hygiene.

Record 5: In January 2022, he set his fifth Guinness World Record by distributing the most sweaters in one hour. During the winter season, he distributed sweaters to 2,800 people in need as part of a noble initiative.

Record 6: In January 2022, he set his sixth Guinness World Record by distributing 2,800 food packets in one hour. The objective was to spread the message of "No one should sleep hungry."

Record 7: In January 2023, he set his seventh Guinness World Record by planting seeds of 21,058 different types of trees as part of the Beej Bhavishya Ka Abhiyaan (Seed is the Future of Campaigns).

Record 8: In January 2024, he set his eighth Guinness World Record by teaching stress management to a large crowd. Guinness World Records created this category for the first time in the world, recognising stress management as an important social cause.

Record 9: By creating the largest figure of the Sun from solar lamps, he has now set his ninth Guinness World Record. Through the launch of the Surya Uday Campaign, he aims to promote environmental conservation and light the homes of economically weaker families using solar energy.