![]() They include around 800 locals and about 200 workers from China, who have been working in batches for two-three months each since September 2017.Ĭhinese workers at the site. Express Photo by Bhupendra Rana Around a thousand of those are working on the cladding of the statue alone, which has been forged in China. Altogether, 4,076 labourers are at work, divided into two shifts. Apart from the statue itself, these include the walkway, the ticket counter, the food court, the four-lane approach highway, the yard where the parts are being assembled, and the Shrestha Bharat Bhavan (a 52-room three-star lodging facility). Work is on at five major sites that make up the Rs 2,989 crore project. Prime Minister Narendra Modi is to come for the unveiling on October 31, Sardar Patel’s birthday, and with BJP leaders admitting it could mark the launch of the party’s 2019 Lok Sabha poll campaign, time is of the essence. From sea level, the height would be 237.35 metres - the 70-metre hillock of Sadhu Bet having been flattened to 55 metres to lay the foundation. The ‘182’ number was picked to match the total Assembly constituencies in Gujarat, and will make the Statue of Unity more than double the 93-metre Statue of Liberty, off the coast of New York City. With a little over a month to go for inauguration, “the world’s tallest statue”, dedicated to Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, stands at about 120-130 metres height - minus the head and shoulders, which will together add up to the final 182-metre (597-feet) plan. Down below, the other labourers at work are about the size of the statue’s smallest toe, shod in a sandal. Just specks against the folds of the Statue of Unity’s dhoti, three workers in yellow hard hats and orange fluorescent safety jackets take a lift up 155 metres carrying patterned bronze sheets with buttons moulded on them, to form the structure’s jacket, taking 10 minutes to cover the distance from the ground to the chest. The height of the statue of Unity’ is 597 ft. Express Photo by Bhupendra Rana ![]()
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