Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Thursday at the inauguration of the "Kartavya Path" at India Gate in the nation's capital that a new age has begun and
Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will Thursday inaugurate the newly-christened Kartavya Path - a stretch from Rashtrapati Bhavan to India Gate- and will also unveil the 28-ft statue of Bose at India Gate.
Grand statue of Netaji: A 100-ft-long truck with 140 wheels was specially designed for this giant granite stone to travel 1,665 km from Khammam in Telangana to New Delhi, 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, to be unveiled at the India Gate, from a monolithic block of granite weighing 280 MT.