The Statue of Unity, built as a tribute to India’s first Deputy Prime Minister Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, will be inaugurated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on October 31.
The statue, built on a river island called Sadhu Bet, will be dedicated to the nation on Patel’s birth anniversary during an event in Gujarat’s Kevadiya village.
Construction of the world’s tallest statue was completed in a record time of 33 months.
The 182-metre tall statue surpasses the 153-metre Spring Temple Buddha in China and is almost twice as tall as the 93-metre Statue of Liberty in US. It has been claimed that Patel’s memorial was the quickest such statue to be completed. Construction of the structure began on December 19, 2015. China’s Spring Temple Buddha statue had taken 11 years to complete.
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