Maharashtra school transforms dead tree stump into a 6-feet pencil
The Hindu
Dravid High School in Wai town hosts the new piece of art at its entrance
A school in Maharashtra’s Wai town has given an artistic makeover to a dead ‘silver oak’ tree by transforming its stump into the shape of a pencil instead of uprooting it. Though educational institutions in Wai town of Satara are closed in the wake of the rising COVID-19 cases, people living in the vicinity are now visiting the Dravid High School just to see the new piece of art located at its entrance. The secondary school in Wai, run by the Deccan Education Society, engaged a carpenter recently to transform the stump of the tree into a six-feet-tall ‘pencil’, the logo of the Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan, a flagship programme of the central government for universal elementary education.
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