– Project was launched on October 31, 2013. Construction began a little over 2 yrs later.
– The statue has been designed by Padma Bhushan winning sculptor Ram Sutar and has been primarily built by Larsen and Toubro supported by the state-run Sardar Sarovar Narmada Nigam Ltd.
– About 250 engineers and 3,400 workers were employed for the same. Took 33 months to construct. Total cost was approx INR 2900Cr.
– The Statue of Unity stands 177 feet higher than the current world’s tallest statue (China’s Spring Temple Buddha).
– The core of the statue is made up of reinforced concrete & its surface has been created using 553 bronze panels – each panel has 10 to 15 micro panels.
– Around 15,000 visitors are expected each day. Online booking of tickets on https://soutickets.in/
– The statue will have a viewing gallery at a height of 193 metres, which can accommodate 200 visitors at a time & will offer a view of the Sardar Sarovar Dam, its reservoir, and the Satpura and Vindhya mountain ranges. Two high speed lifts will take people to the viewers’ gallery.
– The structure will have a museum dedicated to Sardar Patel at the base. The museum will have 40,000 documents, 2,000 photographs and a research centre dedicated to Sardar Patel’s life.