ALLAHABAD: Over six years after he finished working on the 3,500kg sculpture, the district administration is considering finally putting up the 21-feet hammer , sculpted by a former Allahabad University student, for public display. The sculpture has been gathering dust at the campus till now.Designed by fine arts student of AU, Udham Singh Patel, he sculpture signifies the power of the youth.A farmer’s son, Patel is a resident of Nagaipur village of Baheria block in Allahabad. He and five of his juniors had sculpted the 3,500-kilogram ‘hammer’ during a span of around seven months. The hammer is 28 feet in its diameter.It took 50 students to just turn the sculpture on its side so that it could be painted.Patel said that sculpture wasn’t easy on his pocket either. He took a loan of Rs 3.5 lakh from a nationalized bank under the Prime Minister Rozgar Yojna to finance it.His efforts to get the sculpture prominently displayed at a public place did not bear any results. Patel said that he had approached administrative officials as well as political leaders across the state seeking help so that he could repay the loan over the last four years.“I showed photographs of the project to several political leaders, hoping that someone would sponsor it, but no one came forward,” said Patel. “Now, the authorities have assured me that sculpture could be installed at a prominent place in Allahabad. The Company Garden would among the proposed sites,” said Patel. Allahabad district magistrate, Bhanu Chand Goswami, said, “We admire the efforts of the youth involved in creating the sculpture and are mulling about installing it at a location, provided that the dates of the 2019 parliamentary elections are not announced in the coming days.”

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