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Mahatma Gandhi Memorial Plaza coming up in Texas

Darpan News Desk IANS, 09 May, 2014 02:55 PM
    A seven-foot tall bronze statue of India's freedom movement leader will be the centrepiece of the Mahatma Gandhi Memorial of North Texas with walls inscribed with some of his quotes.
     
    After four years of planning and fundraising, ground was broken at Thomas Jefferson Park in Irving for the memorial last Saturday, according to dallasnews.com.
     
    Two groups, the Indian Association of North Texas and the Indian American Friendship Council, raised $250,000 for the project, which is estimated to cost $700,000. South Carolina's Indian-American governor Nikki Haley, Consul General of India Parvatheneni Harish and Irving Mayor Beth Van Duyne attended the groundbreaking.
     
    Haley, daughter of Sikh immigrant parents from India, gave the keynote address at the event. She talked about how Gandhi's principles of peace and love were just as important in the US today as they were in India during the independence movement.
     
    She also commented on how it was appropriate for the memorial plaza to be funded entirely through private money, as the Indian American population is the demographic least dependent on government subsidies.
     
    The Mahatma Gandhi Memorial Plaza will be officially dedicated on Oct 2, Mahatma Gandhi's birthday.
     
     
    According to the memorial team, the 7-foot tall, 30-Inch wide, 1,500-pound bronze statue with powder coated weather resistant material will be installed on a 6-foot tall pedestal in Thomas Jefferson Park spread over 18 acres.
     
    The statue was sculpted by the well-known national award winning sculptor, Burra Varaprasad from Vijayawada, Andhra Pradesh.
     
    The memorial plaza is structurally designed to host 40-feet diameter platform, with solar panels and LED lighting with a beautiful landscape. The platform will be surrounded by 8-ft granite walls engraved with Mahatma Gandhi quotations, as well as quotations of famous world leaders who were influenced by Mahatma Gandhi.

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