HYDERABAD: The Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) has opened a national workshop with the JNTU, University of Fine Arts for production of art from scrap as part of activities undertaken to promote the COP 11 meet.

The artwork-from-scrap project has been taken up with an eye on the Conference of Parties to the Convention on Biodiversity (COP 11), to be hosted by the city in October this year. Nearly 52 biodiversity themes have been created by students since July 23 and the workshop would conclude in a week.

Mayor Majid Hussain and GHMC commissioner MT Krishna Babu visited the workshop at RTC scrap depot in Boduppal on Monday.The mayor said that the articles and sculptures made at the workshop send out the perfect message urging full utilisation of resources. He lauded the artists and students at JNTU Fine Arts for creating something new out of scrap.

The commissioner said that students from various universities and sculptors from across the country, mostly from the fine arts background, were participating in the workshop that aims to create awareness on the importance of biodiversity.

The commissioner said that APSRTC, which has a large scrapyard, had helping GHMC with the space for the endeavour.Krishna Babu said that a workshop on stone sculpture would start at JNTU, Masab Tank on August 8 and continue for a month with a similar biodiversity theme.He said artwork made from scrap would be installed at major parks, important junctions and other public spaces in the city.