![]() ![]() The entire statue is divided into three zones. From the viewing gallery, you can get a great view of SardarSarovar dam. The gallery can hold around 200 tourists at any given time. The statue has a viewing gallery at a height of 153 m from ground. 3000 workers, which includes 300 engineers, were completely involved in this construction process. Around 3 and half years were spent in making this statue. Within a week from inauguration, more than 1.28 lakh tourists have visited this statue. Read More : Top 18 Interesting Facts about India Features of Statue of Unity The overall cost of the statue is a whopping 400 million dollars. This amounts to the concrete used for the statue and the base. The statue used around 210,000-meter cube of concrete. Among this quantity of steel, the local farmers dedicated around 5000 ton of the total steel by giving their old and unused farming tools. This large statue is made with bronze sheets and used around 25,000 ton of steel. Patel worked with determination with numerous kings and royal heirs of the various kingdoms to let them go off their autocracy power over their land. When the British’s rule ended in India, this statesman persuaded (sometimes even used forceful methods) to bond India together by bringing many princely states and colonial regions together as one whole country. However, his actual work started after independence. Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel was an important voice in the country’s freedom struggle. It is inaugrated by Honorable Prime Minister of India, Narendra Modi on the occasion of Sardar’s 143rd birthday on 31st October at 11:30 AM. Standing twice the height of USA’s Statue of Liberty, this Iron Man statue is called as Statue of Unity. An important historic and political figure who brought the country together after independence. ![]() Although not known to the entire world, the personality celebrated as the statue is ‘The Iron Man of India’, Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel. Standing pride and high along the hills of the southern part of Gujarat, this statue claims the new title of being the world’s tallest statue. ![]()
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