A 210-foot-tall bronze statue of 12th -century socialreformer Basavannais set to come up on a 16-acre land at Sri Jagadguru Murugharajendra Brihanmutt inChitradurga, about 200km from Bengaluru.
A team of artists from West Bengal are working on the project under the guidance ofTejendra Singh Baoni G, principal ofKarnataka Chitrakala Parishat, Bengaluru. The project, along with a theme park that captures the essence of India, is expected to be ready by 2024.
As per the plan, the statue will be installed on a platform built above an eight-storey building at a height of 170ft from the ground. According to BM Jagadish, the projects senior engineer, the basement of the ground floor is designed in the shape of a star (called Shatsthala) and its size gradually decreases towards the top.