The Statue of Unity is the world's tallest statue, with a height of 182 meters (597 feet) located near Kevadia in the state of Gujarat, India.
The project was first announced in 2010, and construction started in October 2013 by Indian company Larsen & Toubro, with a total construction cost of ₹27 billion.
It was designed by Indian sculptor Ram V. Sutar and was inaugurated by the Prime Minister of India, Narendra Modi, on 31 October 2018, the 143rd anniversary of Patel's birth.
History : PM Narendra Modi announced the project on 7 October 2013. The Statue of Unity Movement was started in 2013 to collect the iron needed for the statue. By 2016, a total of 135 metric tonnes of scrap iron had been collected and about 109 tonnes of it was used to make the foundation of the statue after processing.