Odisha CM congratulates students for entering into Asia Book of Records

Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Pattnaik congratulated the ITI Berhampur students for entering into Asia Book of Records for making 70 ft guitar out of scrap material.

Bhubaneshwar: The Chief Minister of Odisha Naveena Patnaik on Wednesday congratulated Industrial Training Institute (ITI) Berhampur students for entering into Asia Book of Records.

The 70 ft guitar was built by using the metal sheets from the roof of a damaged building in the ITI campus, as the students decided to reuse it as an artefact instead of selling those as scraps.

Around 150 students of ITI created the 'Scrap guitar’ within a span of 22 days. To spread the awareness of recycling of waste material among the citizens, the students took such initiative.

“The institution is planning to approach the Guinness Book of World Records to get it entered in the record book as the largest guitar made from scrap,” said Principal of the ITI, Rajat Kumar Panigrahi.

Apart from guitar, they had also created 33-ft giraffe, 22-ft fish and 18-ft fictional character 'Predator'.

The students of ITI are now making a 10ft Olive Ridley turtle of 15ft diameter.

The giant guitar is now a part of an open-air museum of ‘art from waste’ being developed on the Berhampur ITI campus.

The scrap museum in ITI is in the limelight since it has been inaugurated in 2017.