{"id":20861,"date":"2024-02-24T07:46:51","date_gmt":"2024-02-24T02:16:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=20861"},"modified":"2025-04-06T08:10:16","modified_gmt":"2025-04-06T02:40:16","slug":"statue-of-unity-exotic-birds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/statue-of-unity-exotic-birds\/","title":{"rendered":"What is the Statue of Unity?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About Statue of Unity<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It was created as a\u00a0tribute to the \u2018Iron Man of India\u2019, Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel.<\/li>\n<li>Location: It is located in\u00a0Gujarat, by the\u00a0banks of the River Narmada on\u00a0the River Island of Sadhu Bet, overlooking the\u00a0Narmada Dam.<\/li>\n<li>Height: The statue,\u00a0182-metre tall, is described as the\u00a0world\u2019s tallest as it exceeds the height of China\u2019s Spring Temple Buddha by 177 feet.\n<ul>\n<li>The height of 182 meters is kept as the\u00a0Gujarat state has 182 seats in the Gujarat\u00a0Legislative Assembly.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>The statue was\u00a0built by Indian construction major\u00a0Larsen &amp; Toubro (L&amp;T)\u00a0and designed by\u00a0Padma Bhushan-winning\u00a0sculptor Ram V Sutar.<\/li>\n<li>The\u00a0state government fully funded the INR 3,050-crore project, covering an area of 20,000 square metres and is surrounded by a 12 square kilometre artificial lake.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Key facts about Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>He was an\u00a0Indian barrister and statesman, one of the\u00a0leaders of the Indian National Congress during the struggle for Indian independence.<\/li>\n<li>He was born on October 31st, 1875, in Nadiad, Gujarat.<\/li>\n<li>Patel first made his mark in 1918, when he\u00a0planned mass campaigns of peasants,\u00a0farmers, and landowners of Kaira, Gujarat, against the decision of the Bombay government to collect the full annual revenue taxes despite crop failures caused by heavy rains.<\/li>\n<li>He was so\u00a0influenced by Gandhiji&#8217;s ideas that in the year 1920,\u00a0in the non-cooperation movement, he adopted indigenous Khadi items and\u00a0started boycotting foreign clothes.<\/li>\n<li>Patel led the Satyagraha movement in Nagpur in 1923\u00a0against the British\u00a0law\u00a0banning the hoisting of the Indian flag.<\/li>\n<li>In 1928, Patel\u00a0successfully led the landowners of Bardoli in their resistance against increased taxes.\n<ul>\n<li>His efficient leadership of the Bardoli campaign\u00a0earned him the title of sardar (\u201cleader\u201d).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>He was appointed as the\u00a0first Deputy Prime Minister and\u00a0Home Minister of India from 1947 to 1950.<\/li>\n<li>He is highly\u00a0credited for the peaceful integration of the princely Indian states into the Indian Union and the\u00a0political unification of India.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What is the non-cooperation movement?<\/h3>\n<p>The Non-Cooperation Movement (NCM) was the first nationwide movement launched by Gandhiji in 1920 during British rule. It emerged as a powerful and fervent response to a culmination of grievances and disillusionment that had been building up among the Indian populace. Rowlatt Actand the brutal Jaliawala Bagh Massacre were the immediate causes for launching the movement.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/cities\/ahmedabad\/in-2-yrs-38-exotic-birds-animals-died-at-zoological-park-near-statue-of-unity-9172126\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>38 exotic birds, animals died at zoological park in the Statue of Unity complex in 2 years<\/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":20862,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-20861","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\/20861","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=20861"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20861\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}