![]() There is also a cheaper option wherein you can opt for a basic entry ticket, priced at Rs. This is a premium ticket which includes entry to the Sardar Patel memorial, museum and audio-visual gallery, observation deck, Valley of Flowers, Statue of Unity site and Sardar Sarovar dam. For adults and children above 3, tickets are priced at Rs 350 per person. Entry for children below the age of 3 Is free. It is open to the public on all days of the week from 9am to 6pm.It was inaugurated on October 31, 2018, which marks the 143rd birth anniversary of Sardar Patel. The construction was started in the last week of October 2013 and completed in mid-October, 2018.As many as 3,400 workers and 250 engineers worked round-the-clock to make the dream project of PM Modi a reality. This ‘Statue of Unity’ has been built in a record 42 months’ time by the engineering and infrastructure major Larsen & Toubro.The Indian government predicts the Statue of Unity will generate approximately 15,000 direct jobs for the local indigenous people every year.About 200 people can stand at any given point of time on a platform close to the chest of the statue. To welcome visitors, the Gujarat government has not only built a 3-star hotel, shopping centre and a research centre in the Sardar Patel statue complex but has also built high-speed elevators that will take you to a height of about 400 feet through the core of the statue where you can get panoramic view of the surroundings.It will be able to withstand wind velocity up to 60 metres a second, vibration and earthquake.It is approximately 200 km from Ahmedabad, Gujarat’s largest city. The dam itself is considered to be one of the largest structures standing at a height of 42 metres – its foundation stone was laid by Jawaharlal Nehru in 1961. It has been built on the Sadhu Island in the state of Gujarat near Rajpipla, 100 kilometers southeast of the city of Vadodara, with the waters of the Narmada river (also called the Sardar Sarovar dam) surrounding it. ![]()
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