Bengaluru, Oct 19: With Prime Minister Narendra Modi likely to inaugurate the 108-foot bronze statue of Bengaluru’s founder Nadaprabhu Kempegowda next month on November 11 near the international airport here, Karnataka Minister C N Ashwath Narayan said on Wednesday.
Narayan, who is also vice-chairman of the Kempegowda Heritage Area Development Authority. The government is spending Rs 85 crore on the Kempegowda statue that is made of bronze. The statue weighing 220 tonne.
It stands on a 23-acre space near the Kempegowda International Airport in Devanahalli. Renowned sculptor and Padma Bhushan awardee Ram Vanji Sutar has designed the statue. Sutar had built the ‘Statue of Unity’ in Gujarat and the statue of Mahatma Gandhi in Bengaluru’s Vidhana Soudha.
Besides Kempegowda’s statue, there will also be a heritage park in an area covering 23 acres dedicated to the 16th century chieftain.
The ‘sacred mud’ collection campaign from all villages across the state, which would be used for the development of the landscape project surrounding the Kempegowda statue, will be flagged off on October 21 in front of the Vidhana Soudha, Narayana informed.
On the same day, Bommai will unveil the statue on the premises of the Vidhana Soudha.
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