India Plans Massive Private Island Statue

Posted by The Islomaniac® • June 6th, 2008 • Printer-friendly

Mumbai IndiaThe government of the state of Maharashtra plans to build a statue of the coast of the city of Mumbai.  The statue will be built on a man-made island, built specifically for the project. The statue will be designed to rival the statue of liberty in height and scale. 

In addition, to the statue the island will be home to a new library, museum and ampitheatre. The statue is rumored to be a bronze rendering of King Shivaji who ruled from 1674-1680. 

The project has not gone without criticism with opponents noting that the 4.5 million dollars needed to build the island and facilities would be better spent on food, water and power, all of which are limited in this region. Others say that the site will help draw tourists to the area and thus generate more revenue for the local economy.

Source: Art Info

  

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  1. GarGi DiXit
    June 7, 2008 • 9:48 am

    Yet Mayawati got success in erecting her own Idol alongside Dr Ambedkar’s statue at Lucknow!
    They are just Misusing the heroes of past for their fraud political purpose. Even now Farmers are committing suicide in Vidharbha. The roads and severe lines and water supply is uneven in various parts of Mumbai, yet this project has been staged, may be just another ploy of congress to try to pacify MMS stream of divide and rule between Marathis, Tamils, UPites, Biharis at Mumbai!
    Sufferers will obviously be the citizens.
    They even haven’t calculated that no matters how much tourism the statue may increase, it will take 100s of years for it to recover the invest money and start getting some profits with interest, plus maintenance and security will keep on raising the amount of invested money!
    It is a lost case, and the real citizens which produced this money by hard work even have no say of yes or no to allow the arbitrary monopolistic socio-democratic government (constantly disturbing economy of India) to raise that statue.
    Anyhow, the interference of government in economic sector of India should be culled down. Either Miniarchy or simple laissez-faire free market system/anarcho-capitalism is the need!

    I wrote about it here
    Indian version of Statue of Liberty!

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