The capital has got a sculpture that aims to create awareness about noise pollution.

The three-piece sculpture, depicting an ear trying to protect itself from the sound created by two trumpet-shaped loudspeakers, has been placed at the roundabout in front of the Mecon office in Doranda.

“The aim is to create awareness among people on the hazards of sound pollution,” said Ranchi deputy commissioner (DC) Rai Mahimapat Roy, who took the initiative to install the sculpture.

“It will be formally inaugurated on Sunday,” added the DC, who first saw the sculpture at a cafe in Jamshedpur, and wanted to get it installed in Ranchi to spread the message to a wider section of the society.

“Yes, the DC once visited our café with his East Singhbhum counterpart and wished it was installed at a place where it could create greater awareness on the hazards of noise pollution,” said Avinash Dugar who runs the café, La Gravitea, in Jamshedpur.

Dugar is an entrepreneur with a knack for social work. He runs the café with hearing and speech impaired employees.

He is also so passionate about combating noise pollution so much that he “never blew horn while driving in the past 12 years”.

Dugar got the sculpture made by Subhendu Biswas, a Jamshedpur-based sculptor, who has created several installations with junk in the past.

“I’m glad to know that the sculpture is being installed at a prominent location in Ranchi, that too near the pedestal of a statue of Swami Vivekananda,” the artist said from New Delhi where he was attending an exhibition organised by Lalit Kala Akademi.

“Each of the three pieces of the sculpture is made of fibre-reinforced polymer and stands at about 5ft from the base,” he said.

“I deliberately chose to make the ear like a human figure to emphasise on how it faces painful noise pollution and why it is needed to be protected,” he said, adding the trumpet-like loudspeakers were also made to look like human beings, as they are responsible for this crime against humanity.

“The ear is painted in green to show that, like the environment, it also needs to be protected while the offending loudspeakers are painted in red to depict the violent nature of noise pollution,” Biswas said when asked about the colour scheme.