Ahmedabad artists to beautify public building walls

The compound walls of public institution buildings which were so far only used to spread political messages, will now be a treat to your eyes. The Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) will rope in 300 professional and amateur painters in a bid to adorning the compound walls with traditional paintings.

"Each year, the civic body invites professional and amateur painters for canvas painting during the Kankaria Carnival. However, now it has decided to take help from these artists for the beautification of compound walls of various public institution buildings. The civic body will paint the walls with traditional paintings using weather-proof paint," said Guruprasad Mohapatra, municipal commissioner of Ahmedabad.

The painting activity will commence from December 25 during Kankaria Carnival and will last till Uttarayan on January 14. The civic body has short-listed five compound walls including three in the new west zone and one each in the west and south zones to be a painted.

During Kankaria Carnival, the canvas painting competition has been replaced by wall painting. The total length of the compound wall to be painted for the competition will be 1,250 metres with a height of 2.5 metres at the Kankaria Lakefront. Around 300 painters will paint traditional designs representing the cultural heritage of India and Gujarat on these walls.