Kaushambi to get blessed by Buddha

Yogi Adityanath government has taken a big decision to increase religious tourism in Uttar Pradesh. The UP government is going to install a 51 feet high bronze statue of Lord Buddha. Preparations have been started for this. While on one hand tourist facilities are being increased in many tourist centers including Varanasi and Ayodhya, on the other hand emphasis is being laid on the development of Buddhist pilgrimage circuit and the process of completing them with new tourist attractions.

According to the vision of Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, the work of installing a 51 feet high bronze statue of Lord Buddha in Kaushambi is being expedited. The State Lalit Kala Academy under the Uttar Pradesh Culture Department has started the e-tender process through short term notice in this context. This will complete the process of determining and allocating the agency for the construction and installation of the statue.

After the allotment of work by the designated agency, 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 1 month, after getting approval, the main statue will be completed and installed in a time period of 6 months.

The statue of Mahatma Buddha to be installed in Kaushambi will be completed through hollow cast method. 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, whose metal thickness casting will be 7 to 8 millimeters.

Mahatma Gautam Buddha spent Chaturmas in Kaushambi itself and gave the message of truth, non-violence to the people.