In a rare glimpse, alumni of Kendriya Vidyalaya, Berhampur in Odisha, joined hands to collect scrap and transform into an outstanding piece of art to create something immemorial and grand after passing out from their alma mater.
A huge 400 square-foot mural of Mahaprabhu Jagannath, Mahaprabhu Balabhadra, & Maa Suvadra backgrounded by the towering image of the Sri Mandira of Puri has been made out of 5500+ plastic bottle caps collected from the sea beach of Gopalpur in Odisha.
The giant mural adorns the east-facing two-storied wall of PMShri Kendriya Vidyalaya, Berhampur in the Bhubaneswar Region. The mural has won Certificate of World Record in Environment Artistry by Influencer Book of World Records, registered with MSME, Govt. of India.
Led by Bharat Gourav Dash, an alumnus of the KV (2012 batch), a team of alumni- Voona Srihari (2018 batch), Purnima Swain and Asutosh Padhi (2021 batch) along with the students of the Vidyalaya worked four hours for a fortnight to create this magnificent mural christened as ‘The Divine Wall’.
“The Divine Wall stands as a towering testimony to the commitment of our students to ‘sustainable creativity and responsible waste management’. The twin messages the mural proclaims are ‘never forget nature and never forget your Vidyalaya’,” said a KV spokesperson.
The alumni took the initiative as part of Ministry of Education Special Campaign 3.0 with main focus areas as cleanliness drive in the workplace and around the premise, disposal of scrap and weeding out of files.
Department of School Education & Literacy (DoSE&L), Ministry of Education is actively conducting the Special Campaign 3.0 on Swachhata, encompassing both the Ministry and its Autonomous Bodies (ABs).
