Netaji statue to stand tall without any damage for a century

Prime Minister Modi is all set to unveil a 28-foot statue of Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose near Delhi’s India Gate on Thursday. The jet black granite statue is carved from a single block of granite weighing 280 metric tons.

The statue will be mounted at the identical location the place a ‘hologram statue’ of Netaji has unveiled formerly this yr on Parakram Diwas (January 23) via the PM to mark the hundred and twenty-fifth birth anniversary of Bose.

Granite Studio India MD Rajat Mehta said the statue weighing 65 metric tonnes will stand tall for the next 100 years without any damage.“The statue has been carved out from a single stone. There is no reduction in the marble. It used to be transported from Telangana to Delhi in the report time of 14 days,” he added.

A crew of sculptors spent 26,000 man-hours of “intense inventive endeavor” to carve the grand statue of Netaji. According to the subculture ministry, the statue is completely “hand sculpted with the use of traditional techniques and modern tools” with the aid of a team of sculptors led with the aid of Arun Yogiraj.