Hyderabad, Oct. 1 (Hydnow): Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao will unveil the Mahatma Gandhi statue at the entrance of Gandhi Hospital here on Sunday to mark the occasion of Gandhi Jayanti.
According to officials, the Hyderabad Metropolitan Development Authority (HMDA) has taken up the Installation of 16 feet height bronze statue of Mahatma Gandhi in meditation posture. The statue is developed in an island area of 200 sqm by greenery landscape, lighting, and civil works including Rudraram flooring pathway, fencing, footpath, and stepped planter walls at Gandhi Hospital.
The Bronze statue weighing of 5 tonnes approximately is sculptured by M/s. Ram Sutar Fine Arts Pvt Limited at the cost of Rs. 1.25 Crores. All the other works including civil, electrical, and greenery work taken up at a cost of approximately one crore.
Later, KCR will also inaugurate the renovation of Gandhi Park on MG Road, Ramgopalpet division here on Sunday.
The renovation works, include a complete compound wall with a designed grill, granite cladding, compound wall cladding with clay tiles, granite curbing, flooring with flammed finish granite stones right around the park, granite footpath, clay bricks around the statue pedestal, and gazebo with the platform was taken up with the budget of Rs. 1.39 crore. (Hydnow)
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