Art from scrap version of Jurassic Park nearly done

A white ambassador car inside the belly of 14-feet-high Stegosaurus, a nest of velociraptors guarding their nest in an old metallic chemical tank and a giant 60-foot high diplodocus with an elongated neck that will serve as a slide for children will be some of the features at the Municipal Corporation of Delhi’s dinosaur theme park at Sarai Kale Khan which is expected to be opened by December end, senior civic officials said on Monday.

- Paras Singh

They said that the artists were giving final touches to 40 dinosaur sculptures made out of metallic scrap, claiming that the park will be “India’s first waste-to-art theme dinosaur park”. Eight artists and 60 workers are working on the project, they said.

MCD has developed three parks across the city based on the theme of waste to art, in which tonnes of metallic scrap was used to develop sculptures on various themes.