A big gathering of 1300 painters belonging to various educations institutions of Punjab province gathered at world’s biggest hockey arena in the morning and started their challenging task by dividing their paint work in groups.

The astro turf of the stadium was covered with plastic sheets to avoid damage and penetrating of colours.

The event was organised by the Message Welfare Trust, a youth-based organisation that has been holding street art competitions for the last three years to discourage wall chalking, in collaboration with the Punjab Sports Board. According to Message Welfare Trust President Mudassir Zia, his organisation had started the Street Art Competition (SAC) to replace wall chalking with paintings structured around the culture and traditions of Pakistan.