The Congress-led DF Government has made an allocation of Rs100 crore for 2014-15 for the construction of a Chhatrapati Shivaji memorial in the Arabian Sea off the Mumbai coast.
Making announcement about the allocation made in the budget for 2014-15 for the national Shivaji memorial project, Deputy chief minister Ajit Pawar said that the State Government had sent the design prepared by the Sir JJ College of Architecture, Mumbai. Maharashtra Coastal Zone Management Authority Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) for environmental clearance.
“The Maharashtra government has taken a decision to build a national monument of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj near Raj Bhavan in the Arabian sea. The design of the monument is prepared by Sir JJ College of Architecture, Mumbai. Maharashtra Coastal Zone Management Authority as well as General Administration Department has sent the proposal to the Union Ministry of Environment for environmental clearance. An outlay of Rs 100 crore has been proposed for the financial year 2014-15,” Pawar said in his budget speech made in the State Assembly.;
Billed to be the “tallest statue in the world”, the Chhatrapati memorial will be located on a 15.96 hectares of an oval basalt outcrop in the Arabian Sea, 1.2 km south-south-west of Raj Bhavan and 2.6 km west of Nariman Point in south Mumbai.