Pencil Tree

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.

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.

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.