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Lucknow, 20 July (HS). The Yogi government is making many efforts to make Uttar Pradesh a great state and promote religious tourism in the state. In this sequence, a 51 feet high bronze statue of Lord Buddha will be installed in Kaushambi. The State Lalit Kala Academy under the Uttar Pradesh Culture Department has started the e-tender process through a short term notice in this context.
According to the government spokesperson, after the process of determining the agency and allotment of work for the construction and installation of the statue is completed, the work of statue installation will have to be completed within a time period of 7 months. For this, the prototype of the statue will be made in the first one month, after which, after getting approval, the main statue will be made and installed within a time period of six months.
The statue of Mahatma Buddha to be installed in Kaushambi will be completed through hollow cast method. The special thing is that the statue will not be made by joining bronze sheets but it will be cast through lost wax process. The bronze metal used for the statue will have 85 percent copper, 5 percent lead, 5 percent tin and 5 percent zinc as alloy.
During this time, the weight of bronze in the statue will be 52 tons while 20 tons of iron will also be used in its installation. The statue will be hollow from inside and its metal thickness casting will be 7 to 8 millimeters. It is worth mentioning that Gautam Buddha spent Chaturmas in Kaushambi and gave the message of truth and non-violence to the people. Because of this, followers of Buddhism from all over the world come here to visit and worship the Buddhist site.