Statue of Unity to be 'made in China' after all!

October 21, 2015 17:46

Thousands of Chinese workers are expected to arrive at Sadhu Bet in Narmada district end of this year to begin work on the Statue of Unity, a memorial to Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel -- a project launched by Prime Minister Narendra Modi when he was Gujarat chief minister.

Even as Congress criticised the project as defeating the "Make in India' initiative launched by Modi, after reports that the statue's bronze parts will be made in a foundry in China, the Gujarat government said it has no control over where the contractor company gets the material from.
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