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Beyond a statue

The real achievement of the 'Statue of Unity'

Domestic steel, metal producers relish their pennyworth to Statue of Unity

Statue of Unity -- the world's largest statue dedicated to the nation by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday

Farmers helped build it, tribals to benefit from Statue of Unity: PM Modi

In his speech during inauguration of the 182 metres high statue of Patel, Modi said that the resulting tourism will 'change the lives of the locals'

How Patel became Sardar

Vallabhbhai Patel's great claim to fame originated from his steely leadership of a struggle against a repressive regime, a good three decades before the achievement of states' unification

Patel's 'statue of unity' also tribute to Indian engineering skills: L&T

The Statue of Unity, built as a tribute to Sardar Ballabhbahi Patel known as Iron Man of India, would be the tallest in the world and the quickest to be completed in just 33 months unlike China's Spring Temple Buddha which took 11 years to complete, infrastructure giant Larsen & Toubro claimed. At 182 metres from the road entry and 208.5 metres from the river entry, the iconic statue is taller than the 153m Spring Temple Buddha in China and almost twice the height of the world-famous Statue of Liberty in New York. The giant statue is set for inauguration by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on October 31. Built at a cost of Rs 2,989 crore, the Statue of Unity project, barring bronze cladding which is a fragment of the mammoth work, has been done indigenously, L&T told PTI. The statue is located approximately 3.5 km downstream from the Sardar Sarovar Dam, on Sadhu Hill on the bed of the river Narmada. The raft construction of the structure actually begun on December 19, 2015, and ..

PM Modi unveils 'Statue of Unity', says lakhs of farmers helped build it

The Rs 23.89 billion monument is a tribute to Patel who played a major role in integrating the princely states into the Indian Union after the partition of 1947

Sardar Patel unified India in 70 days through bloodless revolution: Rajnath

He said the first home minister of the country had inculcated the spirit of nationalism across India and always believed in taking everyone along in the march towards progress

Statue of Unity: An open letter to Sardar Patel by activist Medha Patkar

Your generation was aware of two vices - corruption and communalism. The spirit behind your then sermons is needed today

Statue of Unity could have paid for 2 IITs, 5 IIMs and many agri projects

The construction cost could have been used to irrigate 40,192 hectares of land, cover repair, renovation & restoration of 162 minor irrigation schemes and the construction of 425 small check-dams

Sardar Patel was synonymous with trust and integrity, writes PM Modi

Prime Minister Narendra Modi, offering a special tribute to Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, says the great unifier was also responsible for building India's great cooperative sector

Statue of Unity: How environment, Adivasi rights lost again to Patel's name

Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel is often thought of as the inspiration for the Sardar Sarovar dam which faced a lot of environmental and humanitarian protests

Statue of Unity: Security beefed up in Gujarat ahead of inauguration today

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will travel to Gujarat to inaugurate the statue

Govt must explain Rs 30-bn Sardar statue at a time of farmer distress: Left

CPI national secretary Binoy Viswam claimed that 75,000 adivasi families living near the Sardar Sarovar dam had been rendered homeless to facilitate the construction of the mammoth structure

With love, despite hate: How the 182-metre Sardar Patel statue was built

At 182 metres, the Statue of Unity is twice the height of the Statue of Liberty

State-run firms partially funded Sardar Patel's Statue of Unity under CSR

The CAG mentioned five companies giving Rs 1.47 billion for the statue in its report for 2016-17

The statue of unity: Can it become the new magnet of tourism for India?

History shows that once-in-a-lifetime structures like the Statue of Unity create opportunities around them, especially in tourism, that create a positive return on investment in just a few decades

Why Patel vs Nehru is a bogus debate

It is time for the Congress party to reclaim Sardar Patel's legacy, which the BJP has wrongly appropriated

Gujarat looks to attract tourism with inauguration of Sardar Patel's statue

The Statue of Unity will boost tourism, with one estimate putting the daily numbers at 15,000, and it can become one of the most visited spots in the nation, a state government official said

PM Modi to inaugurate Statue of Unity on October 31: Vijay Rupani

The 182-metre tall statue is being built with 25,000 tonnes of iron and 90,000 tonnes of cement

'Statue of Unity' to be inaugurated on Sardar Patel's birthday Oct 31

The foundation stone of the monument, a dream project of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, was laid on October 31, 2013, coinciding with the 138th birth anniversary of Patel