Ahmedabad, 9 December 2014

This report in Indian Express suggests that, earlier this year, under the previous Congress-NCP government in Maharashtra, the proposed mid-Arabian sea statue of Shivaji Maharaj was redesigned with an increased height of 190 metres to tower over Gujarat’s under-construction Statue of Unity, which at 182 metres was touted as the world’s tallest.

The report further says, the earlier design of the statue, approved by the Ashok Chavan government, was 98-metre high aimed at dwarfing the 93-m high Statue of Liberty in Manhattan. The project management consultants (PMC) will now have to work on the revised conceptual plans for the 190-m high statue as chalked out by JJ College of Architecture principal Rajiv Mishra.

The report says the centre has granted approval to Rs. 1,900 crore mid-Arabian sea Shivaji statue project last week, and the Maharashtra government is taking help from Gujarat state which is construing the Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel statue on a river island.