Maharashtra School Transforms Dead Tree Stump Into 6-Feet Pencil

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.

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. "We had an old silver oak tree which was dead for last several years and since it was at the entrance of the school, it was posing a danger to the school building as it could have fallen any time," its principal Nagesh Mone told PTI. Mr Mone had initially called some woodcutters to uproot the dead tree and remove it from the place.