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India plans to complete construction this year 180-meter monument to the greatest fighter for the independence of the country Wallabhai Patel. A grand statue has been erected since 2014 in the midst artificial lake that spreads near the city of Vardodar state Gujarat.
More specifically, the sculptural structure of the leader the national movement of India will be 182 meters high, which is 54 meters above the no less majestic Buddha statue of China (province Henan), not to mention other world high-rise monuments (see illustration of height comparison).
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Note that the total height of the new monument with a pedestal will be even more – about 240 meters. Such a grand design will require almost 6 thousand tons of steel, 19 thousand tons of iron rebar, 75 thousand tons of concrete and about 23 thousand tons of bronze sheet.
By the summer of last year, the statue had already risen 60 meters. Like a little over three years however management of contractor Michael Graves Architecture & Design says this year’s monument will be completed since at this “construction site of the century” is currently two and a half thousand workers are employed, and the erection of a monument carried out almost around the clock.
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The cost of this project will be more than 300 million american dollars. However, such investments, according to Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, quite justified since this monument will significantly increase the international authority of the country, will attract many tourists to Gujarat and ultimately account, pay for itself. The official himself donated for the construction of 34 million dollars, many other Indian leaders have also acted and entrepreneurs, so the construction is underway, one might say, in form of public-private cooperation.
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