30-Foot Statue Of Subhas Chandra Bose To be Installed At India Gate

A large black jade granite stone has been selected and brought from Telangana for the statue to Delhi where the work will be done.

Mysuru-based sculptor Arun Yogiraj will carve the 30-feet statue of Subhas Chandra Bose which will be installed at India Gate under the grand canopy behind the erstwhile Amar Jawan Jyoti, sources said on Tuesday.

Mr Yogiraj had also carved the 12-feet statue of Adi Shankaracharya at Kedarnath, which was unveiled by Prime Minister Narendra Modi last year.

Ahead of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose's 125th birth anniversary, Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced that the freedom fighter's statue will be installed at India Gate to honour his contribution to the independence movement.

The canopy, which was built along with the rest of the grand monument in the 1930s by Sir Edwin Lutyens, once housed a statue of the former king of England George V. The statue was later moved to Coronation Park in Central Delhi in the mid-1960s.