PTI | | Posted by Yamini C S
With Prime Minister Narendra Modi prone to inaugurate the 108-foot bronze statue of Bengaluru’s founder Nadaprabhu Kempegowda subsequent month, Karnataka Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai on Thursday directed officers to make obligatory preparations for the occasion.
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The Prime Minister will even be inaugurating the Kempegowda theme park which has been developed close to the worldwide airport right here. Based on official sources, the inauguration is probably going on November 10 and the occasion is prone to entice lakhs of individuals.
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Bommai as we speak chaired a gathering of the Nadaprabhu Kempegowda Heritage Space Growth Authority and took inventory of the inauguration plans. The statue weighing 220 tonne is being put in on the Kempegowda Worldwide Airport (KIA) right here at an expense of about ₹85 crore.
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There will even be a heritage park in about 23 acres devoted to the sixteenth century chieftain. Forward of the grand unveiling of the statue authorities had launched a novel marketing campaign of amassing the “sacred” mud and water from all of the villages of the state.
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Famend sculptor and Padma Bhushan awardee Ram Vanji Sutar has designed the statue at his Nodia studio. Sutar had constructed the ‘Statue of Unity’ in Gujarat and the statue of ‘Gandhiji’ in Bengaluru’s Vidhana Soudha.