{"id":12294,"date":"2023-06-21T09:04:29","date_gmt":"2023-06-21T03:34:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=12294"},"modified":"2025-03-30T08:31:46","modified_gmt":"2025-03-30T03:01:46","slug":"statue-of-unity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/statue-of-unity\/","title":{"rendered":"Statue of Unity"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Statue of Unity:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It was created as a <strong>tribute to the \u2018Iron Man of India\u2019, Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Location<\/strong>: It is Located in <strong>Gujarat<\/strong>, by the <strong>banks of River Narmada<\/strong> on the <strong>River Island of Sadhu<\/strong> Bet overlooking the Narmada Dam.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Height<\/strong>: The statue, <strong>182-metre tall, is described as the world\u2019s tallest<\/strong>\u00a0 as it exceeds the height of China\u2019s Spring Temple Buddha by 177 feet.<\/li>\n<li>The statue was <strong>built by Indian construction major Larsen &amp; Toubro<\/strong> (L&amp;T) and <strong>designed by Padma Bhushan-winning sculptor Ram V Sutar<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Key facts about Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>He was an <strong>Indian barrister and statesman<\/strong>, one of the l<strong>eaders of the Indian National Congress <\/strong>during the struggle for Indian independence.<\/li>\n<li>He was <strong>born on<\/strong> <strong>31st October 1875, in Nadiad, Gujarat.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Patel <strong>first made his mark in<\/strong> <strong>1918<\/strong>, when he <strong>planned mass campaigns of peasants<\/strong>, farmers, and landowners<strong> of Kaira<\/strong>, Gujarat, <strong>against the decision of the Bombay government to collect the full annual revenue taxes despite crop failures<\/strong> caused by heavy rains.<\/li>\n<li>He was so <strong>influenced by Gandhiji&#8217;s ideas that in the year 1920, in the non-cooperation movement,<\/strong> he adopted indigenous Khadi items and started boycotting foreign clothes.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Patel led the Satyagraha movement in Nagpur in 1923<\/strong> against the British law of banning the hoisting of the Indian Flag.<\/li>\n<li><strong>In 1928<\/strong> Patel successfully <strong>led the landowners of Bardoli<\/strong> in their resistance <strong>against increased taxes.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>His efficient leadership of the Bardoli campaign <strong>earned him the title of sardar (\u201cleader\u201d).<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>He was appointed as the <strong>first Deputy Prime Minister and Home Minister of India from 1947 to 1950.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>He is highly <strong>credited for the peaceful integration of the princely Indian states<\/strong> into the Indian Union and the <strong>political unification of India.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1)\u00a0Who was known as the Iron man of India?<\/h3>\n<p>Sardar Patel is known as the iron man of India. He was a political and freedom leader in India&#8217;s freedom struggle.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/cities\/ahmedabad\/tender-issued-to-start-suspended-helicopter-joyride-at-statue-of-unity-8676142\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Tender issued to start suspended helicopter joyride at Statue of Unity<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Statue of Unity was created as a tribute to the \u2018Iron Man of India\u2019, Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":12295,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-12294","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12294\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}