Indias first seaplane service from Gujarat began on October 31, 2020. This route connects the Sabarmati Riverfront in Ahmedabad with the Statue of Unity in Kaivadia.
The Unity Statue was built to commemorate . Sardar Patel owned 560 princely states in India before independence, so the name of the statue was dubbed the “statue of unity”. It opened on October 31, 2018 to commemorate the 143rd birthday of Sardar Patel.
The Unity statue is the tallest statue in the world. Its height is 182 meters, which is 23 meters taller than the Buddha Statue in the Spring Temple in China and almost twice the statue of Liberty (93 meters high) in the United States.