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108 ft statue of Kempegowda in Bengaluru finds place in ‘World Book of Records’ | Bengaluru

November 12, 2022No Comments2 Mins Read
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The 108 toes statue of Nadaprabhu Kempegowda, which Prime Minister Narendra Modi will unveil on Friday is the “first and tallest bronze statue of a founding father of a metropolis,” as per ‘World Ebook of Information’.

Referred to as the “Statue of Prosperity,” it has been constructed to commemorate the contribution of Kempegowda, the founding father of the town, in the direction of the expansion of Bengaluru.

“A matter of pleasure for us that the Statue of Prosperity is the primary and tallest bronze statue of a founding father of a metropolis as per World Ebook of Information. An apt tribute to Bengaluru’s founder Kempegowda. Standing at 108 ft, it symbolises his imaginative and prescient of a International Metropolis,” Karnataka Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai tweeted together with a certificates from ‘World Ebook of Information’ on Wednesday.

READ | PM Modi to unveil 108-foot-tall ‘statue of prosperity’ in Bengaluru on Nov 11

The statue weighing 220 tonne has been put in on the Kempegowda Worldwide Airport right here. It has a sword weighing 4 tonne.

The undertaking, apart from the statue, has a heritage theme park in an space protecting 23 acres devoted to the sixteenth century chieftain, collectively costing about ₹84 crore to the federal government.

Kempegowda, a feudatory ruler beneath the erstwhile Vijayanagara Empire based Bengaluru in 1537. He’s revered, particularly by the Vokkaliga neighborhood that’s dominant in Outdated Mysuru and different components of southern Karnataka.

Famend sculptor and Padma Bhushan awardee Ram Vanji Sutar has designed the statue. Sutar had constructed the ‘Statue of Unity’ in Gujarat and the statue of Mahatma Gandhi in Bengaluru’s Vidhana Soudha.

READ | ‘Holy mud’ for use throughout unveiling of Kempe Gowda statue in Bengaluru

As a precursor to the revealing, ‘Mruthike’ (sacred mud) was collected from over 22,000 places throughout the state, which was combined symbolically with the mud beneath one of many 4 towers of the statue as we speak.

Twenty one particular autos collected the sacred mud, together with villages, cities and cities over the last two weeks.

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