PM Modi unveils statue of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose at India Gate

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday unveiled a 28-feet statue of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose at India Gate.

The statue has been installed at the same place where a 'hologram statue' of Netaji was unveiled earlier this year on Parakram Diwas (January 23) by the prime minister to mark the 125th birth anniversary of Bose, it said.

A team of sculptors spent 26,000 man-hours of



"intense artistic endeavour" to carve a grand statue of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose from a monolithic block of granite weighing 280 MT, the Culture Ministry said on Wednesday.

The statue is completely "hand sculpted using traditional techniques and modern tools". The team of sculptors was led by Arun Yogiraj. The towering statue of Netaji is "one of the tallest, realistic, monolithic, handmade sculptures in India".