Elephant Sculpture Made out of Artificial Grass Installed at ITI Berhampur Campus

Berhampur: A herd of five elephants made out of artificial grass has been installed at the scrap sculpture park of ITI Berhampur to raise awareness about the protection of jumbos.

The scrap sculpture park of ITI Berhampur is the largest sculpture park in Asia and has been placed in the Asia book Record.

Designed and developed by the students and instructors of the ITI Berhampur to mark the World Elephant Day, the unique sculpture will educate the visitors about the importance of protection of elephants for ecological balance.

The elephant sculptures are made out of waste Iron bars from a demolishing building by wrapping artificial grass.
Normally all the artificial grass sculptures are made out of FRP materials. These FRP materials cause pollution and discharges CO2 gas pollution. The residue also creates cancer. The pollution free and environmental friendly sculpture are a new innovation of its type said Dr. Rajat Kumar Panigrahy, Principal, ITI, Berhampur.

Professor Prafulla Kumar Mohanty, Vice Chancellor, Khallikote University, congratulated the students and the staffs to take such innovative initiative to protect the elephants and ecological balance.

The Director IISER, Professor K.V.R. Charry said Elephant is a symbol of property, wealth the ear of elephant is the symbol of Intelligence. When young skilled professionals take such an initiative in the world Elephant Day means the environmental awareness has already started.

Anantaram Kar, wild life activist said the elephant awareness campaigning by Govt. ITI is a mile stone in protection of elephants. The students have shown various placards of slogans in Elephant protection.