[ alt="x" src="//storage.googleapis.com/tb-img/production/20/01/x.png" style="width: 210px; height: 337px; float: left;"> Noted sculptor Ram V. Sutar, a Padma Bhushan Awardee is the sculptor for the Statue of Unity. About the statue:- The Statue of Unity is the world's tallest statue, with a height of 182 metres (597 feet) which is almost double the height (including the pedestal) of the Statue of Liberty, USA. It is located on a river facing the Sardar Sarovar Dam on river Narmada in Kevadiya colony, Narmada District in the Indian State of Gujarat. India’s largest engineering and construction company Larsen & Toubro (L&T) was assigned the responsibility for designing, engineering, procurement, construction, operation and maintenance of the project. The statue was inaugurated by the Prime Minister Narendra Modi on 31 October 2018, the 143rd birth anniversary of Patel. The Statue was built in just 46 months. Loha Campaign:- A countrywide ‘Loha Campaign’ were conducted during the year 2013-14, in which used farm tools were collected from farmers across the country as their voluntary contribution to the iconic project. The campaign received 134.25 metric tonnes of iron which was converted into reinforcement bars used in the construction of the project. The previous tallest statue in India was the 41 m (135 ft) statue of Veera Abhaya Anjaneya Hanuman Swami at the Paritala Anjaneya Temple near Vijayawada in the state of Andhra Pradesh.