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Statue of Unity
The Statue of Unity is a statue of Indian statesman and founding
Statue of Unity
father Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel (1875–1950) in the Narmada
district of Gujarat, India. It currently holds the record for the
world's tallest statue, with a height of 182 metres (597 ft) or about
four times as tall as the Statue of Liberty.[2][3] Vallabhbhai Patel was
one of the most prominent leaders of the Indian independence
movement, and the first Deputy Prime Minister of India. The statue
is on a river-island facing the Narmada Dam (also called as Sardar
Sarovar dam) near Rajpipla, 100 kilometres southeast of the city of
Vadodara.
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Finance
The statue was built on a Public Private Partnership model, with most of the money raised by the Government of
Gujarat. The Government of India had allotted ₹3 billion (US$42 million) for the project in the budget from 2012
to 2016[22][23] In the 2014–15 Union Budget, ₹2 billion (US$28 million) were allocated for the construction of the
statue.[24][25][26]
Construction
A consortium comprising Turner Construction (project manager[27] of Burj Khalifa), Michael Graves and
Associates and Meinhardt Group supervised the project. It took 56 months to complete – 15 months for planning,
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40 months for construction and two months for handing over by the
consortium.[21] The total cost of the project was estimated to be about
₹20.63 billion (US$290 million) by the government.[22] The tender bids
for the first phase were invited in October 2013 and were closed in
November 2013.[28]
Environmental activists wrote a letter to the central government contending that project implementation started
without clearance from the Environment Ministry.[43] People of Kevadia, Kothi, Waghodia, Limbdi, Navagam, and
Gora villages opposed the construction of the statue and demanded the restitution of the land rights over 375
hectares (927 acres) of land acquired earlier for the dam as well as the formation of new Garudeshwar subdistrict.
They also opposed the formation of Kevadia Area Development Authority (KADA) and the construction of
Garudeshwar weir-cum-causeway project. The government of Gujarat accepted their demands.[44]
When ₹2 billion (US$28 million) was allocated for the statue in the 2014–15 Union budget, several people and
political parties criticised the expenditure on the statue over other priorities, such as women's safety, education
and agricultural schemes.[45][46][47][48] L&T contracted with TQ Art Foundry – a subsidiary of the Jiangxi Toqine
Company based in Nanchang, China – for the bronze cladding of the statue, which was criticised by the Indian
National Congress, the opposition party in the Gujarat Legislative Assembly.[49] It was later clarified by
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Swarajyamag that 9 percent of the total value of the project was sourced from China.[50]
See also
List of megaprojects in India
Mahatma Mandir
Shiv Smarak
Statue of Ahimsa
Ushiku Daibutsu
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External links
Official Website (http://www.statueofunity.in)
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