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Statue of Unity surpasses Lady Liberty with 15,000 average daily footfall

The Statue of Unity is a statue of Vallabhbhai Patel, the first home minister of the country. With a height of 182 metres, it is the world's tallest statue

Statue of Unity: Railways to run special train for tourists from March 4

The train, which will be run under the government's Bharat Darshan scheme, will have a seven-night and eight-day tour package beginning March 4 from Chandigarh

Govt spent Rs 3,000 cr on Patel statue, Rs 2.64 cr more in advertising it

The colossal 182 metre-tall statue of Sardar Patel is situated on an island on the Narmada river near Kevadia, around 100 km south-east of Vadodara city of Gujarat

Govt provided Rs 300 cr towards Statue of Unity in Gujarat, Parliament told

The total cost of the statue is estimated at around Rs 3,000 crore

Statue of Unity may boost Gujarat's annual tourist count to 75 mn: Official

The 182-metre tall Statue of Unity, built on an islet near Sardar Sarovar Dam in Gujarat's Narmada district, was inaugurated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on October 31

Who's the tallest of them all?

Sardar Patel's bronze monolith cost nearly Rs 30 billion; Rama's statue topped by a glittering canopy will come at a heavier price

How Ram V Sutar dreamt big and went on to create the world's largest statue

The Statue of Unity, which reportedly cost the government close to Rs 30 billion, was a pet project of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

Statue of Unity to get air and rail connectivity soon: Gujarat govt

Chief Minister Vijay Rupani held meetings with top officials of the Airports Authority of India(AAI) and the Railway Board in this regard during his Delhi visit Friday

Statue of Unity: A display of nationalism at the cost of other priorities

The efficiency of the government machinery stands in stark contrast to India's modus operandi when it comes to infrastructure

A lesson from two movies: Statues that fly, or fall

No matter how tall a statue is, it is unlikely to survive for eternity.

Sardar Patel doesn't need your help, Mr Modi-you need his

The statue of Sardar Vallabhai Patel is made entirely out of irony

Looming issues

The question is: unity of what? The answer is that it is the geographical union of India, not the unity of people

The spectacle of sculpture

The Statue of Unity in Gujarat was commissioned at almost the same time as the National Police Memorial in New Delhi's Chanakyapuri

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