Sculptors Spent 26,000 Hours To Carve Netaji Bose’s Grand Statue: Centre
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A special 10-minute drone show on Netaji's life would be projected at India Gate on Thursday.New Delhi: A team of sculptors spent 26,000 man-hours of "intense artistic endeavour" to carve a grand statue of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose, to be unveiled at the India Gate, from a monolithic block of granite weighing 280 MT, the Culture Ministry said on Wednesday.A 100-ft-long truck with 140 wheels was specially designed for this giant granite stone to travel 1,665 km from Khammam in Telangana to New Delhi, it said.Prime Minister Narendra Modi will Thursday inaugurate the newly-christened Kartavya Path - a stretch from Rashtrapati Bhavan to India Gate- and will also unveil the 28-ft statue of Bose at India Gate.Installation work was underway on Wednesday on the eve of its unveiling. It w...