Toll Plaza Gates Were Widened To Transport Stone For Netaji Bose Statue
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A team of sculptors spent 26,000 man hours of "intense artistic endeavour" to carve Netaji's statue.New Delhi: Some of the toll plaza gates on highways had to be "temporarily dismantled" to allow passage to a 100-ft-long truck carrying the monolithic block of granite for the statue of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose from Telangana to Delhi.Rajat Mehta, director of Delhi-based Granite Studio India, which supplied the telephone black stone sourced from a quarry in Khammam in Telangana, said a "makeshift road" had to be built to move it from the quarry to a highway for transportation."It was a mammoth block of stone, weighing 280 metric tonnes (MT) and 32-ft-long. It was 11-ft-high and 8.5-ft-wide from which the image of Netaji was carved out. But bringing it to Delhi entailed a whole hos...