Deputy Chief Minister Kadiyam Srihari will lead a delegation of Telangana government to China from February 14 to 21 to visit statue-making centres and discuss with sculptors construction of a 125-foot-high statue of B.R. Ambedkar.
Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao had laid the foundation stone for the statue at NTR ghat here and even announced construction nearby of a Smriti Vanam over 36 acres on the occasion of Ambedkar’s birth anniversary last year.
In this context, the Chief Minister had appointed a committee headed by Mr. Srihari to oversee the plans. Mr. Srihari has already surveyed the proposed site and the installation of the statue. He had also visited Sikkim on a study tour with officials.
In the second such tour, this time to China, Mr. Srihari would be accompanied by other committee members, including Scheduled Castes Development Minister G. Jagadish Reddy, MPs Balka Suman and Pasunuri Dayakar, MLAs Aruri Ramesh and Rasamai Balkishan and officials.
