What started as an academic project for Saloni Mehta, a Masters student from the Industrial Design Centre (IDC) at IIT-Bombay , materialized into a real-life one last weekend. Mehta, along with her friends and about 50 volunteers associated with the institute, gave a facelift to an unused skywalk outside the IIT-B main gate connecting to the other side. The team spent over 15 hours on Saturday and Sunday cleaning the skywalk and painting it.
At the beginning of the year, when she was assigned the project to find why people are not using skywalks, she realised the one outside their very own campus remained unused due to the stench, filth and poor lighting. "I was studying the human behavior on why skywalks are not used and I thought at least the dirt and stench should not be the reason for not using it. People prefer waiting for the traffic to clear and then cross the road, risking their lives," said Mehta, adding that the junction witnesses traffic throughout the day . With this in mind, she sent off a mail to everyone on the campus and about 50 people came out to support her initiative, school students, professors, IITians, alumni included. From a class IX student to an engineer who graduated from the institute in 1969, all were present for the skywalk facelift drive
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