The Gujarat government on Tuesday awarded the contract for constructing the Statue of Unity, a bronze statue of India's first home minister Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, to engineering and construction conglomerate Larsen and Toubro (L&T).
The 182-metre statue, which will be the world's tallest and twice the size of New York's Statue of Liberty, is a dream project of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
The Statue of Unity will be installed on the river island called Sadhu Bet near Vadodara in Gujarat on the Narmada river around two hours by road from Baroda city.
The 182-metre statue, which will be the world's tallest and twice the size of New York's Statue of Liberty, is a dream project of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
The Statue of Unity will be installed on the river island called Sadhu Bet near Vadodara in Gujarat on the Narmada river around two hours by road from Baroda city.