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THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: A 90-foot-long snake-like set up made out of 20,000 plastic bottles by a staff of imaginative younger minds is without doubt one of the main points of interest drawing curious crowds on the primary venue of the Onam Week celebrations by Kerala Tourism in Thiruvananthapuram.
Made for Kerala authorities’s Suchitwa Mission targeted on sanitation, the set up depicts the huge plastic snake about to swallow the Globe — in a transparent message concerning the risk to the Earth from the uncontrolled use of plastic.
Eleven college students of the College of Fine Arts took 4 days to place collectively the predominantly white-and-green work alongside the tree-lined pathway on the sprawling grounds of the Kanakakunnu Palace right here.
Erected with the intention of making consciousness among the many public concerning the accumulating plastic waste choking up the planet, the set up received its inputs from plastic-bottles passengers used and left at Thiruvananthapuram Central railway station throughout the previous few days, Suchitwa Mission mentioned in a launch.
Suchitwa Mission is the technical help group within the waste-management sector below the state’s Local Self Government Department. “The 90-foot-long determine, with its slithering seems to be finally main upward to a flared ‘hood’ menacingly wanting to swallow a sphere that represents the globe, has been accomplished by a collective named Trivandrum Young Artist Group,” the discharge mentioned.
State Tourism Minister P A Mohamed Riyas appreciated the artists and the Suchitwa Mission staff, praising the set up. “This carries a really lovely message too,” the minister mentioned. The Thiruvananthapuram Municipal Corporation, in a bid to implement inexperienced protocol pointers at numerous venues of the celebrations, has posted a 200-member battalion of ‘Green Army’ at Kanakakkunnu.
The Suchitwa Mission made an attraction to the general public at Kanakakunnu and different venues to cooperate with the Green Army and keep away from single-use plastics on the web site and in addition desist from littering the venue. The mission is liable for conceptualising and action-planning moreover conducting workshops and coaching programmes within the waste-management sector of Kerala.
(With PTI inputs)
Made for Kerala authorities’s Suchitwa Mission targeted on sanitation, the set up depicts the huge plastic snake about to swallow the Globe — in a transparent message concerning the risk to the Earth from the uncontrolled use of plastic.
Eleven college students of the College of Fine Arts took 4 days to place collectively the predominantly white-and-green work alongside the tree-lined pathway on the sprawling grounds of the Kanakakunnu Palace right here.
Erected with the intention of making consciousness among the many public concerning the accumulating plastic waste choking up the planet, the set up received its inputs from plastic-bottles passengers used and left at Thiruvananthapuram Central railway station throughout the previous few days, Suchitwa Mission mentioned in a launch.
Suchitwa Mission is the technical help group within the waste-management sector below the state’s Local Self Government Department. “The 90-foot-long determine, with its slithering seems to be finally main upward to a flared ‘hood’ menacingly wanting to swallow a sphere that represents the globe, has been accomplished by a collective named Trivandrum Young Artist Group,” the discharge mentioned.
State Tourism Minister P A Mohamed Riyas appreciated the artists and the Suchitwa Mission staff, praising the set up. “This carries a really lovely message too,” the minister mentioned. The Thiruvananthapuram Municipal Corporation, in a bid to implement inexperienced protocol pointers at numerous venues of the celebrations, has posted a 200-member battalion of ‘Green Army’ at Kanakakkunnu.
The Suchitwa Mission made an attraction to the general public at Kanakakunnu and different venues to cooperate with the Green Army and keep away from single-use plastics on the web site and in addition desist from littering the venue. The mission is liable for conceptualising and action-planning moreover conducting workshops and coaching programmes within the waste-management sector of Kerala.
(With PTI inputs)
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