page_title: Statue of Equality
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Statue of Equality / History
caption_attribution_description: English: Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar, chief architect of Indian constitution and founding father of the modern India.
context_page_description: The Statue of Equality or the Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Memorial is a monument under-construction dedicated to B. R. Ambedkar, the 20th-century Indian intellectual and the father of the Indian Constitution. The statue will be located in Mumbai city in the Indian state Maharashtra. The statue of Babasaheb Ambedkar will be 137.3-metre in total height, including a 30.5-metre pedestal. The Ambedkar statue will be the third tallest statue in the world after the Statue of Unity and the Spring Temple Buddha.
context_section_description: It is to be situated on property formerly owned by National Textile Corporation known as Indu Mills (India United Mill No. 6) in Dadar. The land is now owned by the government of Maharashtra. The foundation stone was laid on 11 October 2015 by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Construction proper was to start in November 2015, but as of November 2017 the project had not been assigned to a construction contractor, due to only one bid being submitted back then.
  On March 10, 2018, newspapers in India reported that the contract for the construction of the statue had been awarded to the Shapoorji Pallonji Group at a cost of Rs. 783 crores (7.83 billion).
caption: The memorial will be dedicated to B. R. Ambedkar
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