Union minister Nitin Gadkari on Friday&nbsp;said he intends to build a structure taller than Dubai's&nbsp;iconic Burj Khalifa here in the memory of Maratha warrior&nbsp;Chhatrapati Shivaji.
<img src="http://images.mid-day.com/images/2015/oct/Burj-Khalifa.jpg" alt="" />Burj Khalifa, the world tallest tower, is silhouetted at sunset in Dubai. Pic/AFP
"I am not making any announcement but only expressing my&nbsp;wish. I want a huge building to come up in Mumbai. I want a&nbsp;structure taller than the Burj Khalifa, one of the tallest&nbsp;buildings of the world, to come up in Mumbai near the seas. It&nbsp;will be called Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj tower," Gadkari&nbsp;said while speaking at a conclave here.&nbsp;
He further said the first 30 floors would be reserved for&nbsp;a conventional Centre, the next 30 for restaurants, another&nbsp;set of 30 floors for hotels, 20 floors for malls only, along&nbsp;with many floors underground as parking space.
Burj Khalifa is one of the tallest artificial structure&nbsp;in the world, standing at 829.8 mt (2,722 ft).
"On the top floors of the building, there can be an art&nbsp;gallery dedicated to Shivaji Maharaj, depicting his life.&nbsp;Around the building, there will be musical fountains, lights&nbsp;and crystal clear water," he said.
The minister also said that he also envisages to make&nbsp;seas of Mumbai as clean as those in Andamans and Mauritius.&nbsp;
"We will do whatever can be done to make sea water&nbsp;clean," he added.
The Maharashtra government is currently working on the Rs&nbsp;1,900-crore project to build a grand memorial for the 17th&nbsp;century warrior king in the Arabian Sea off Mumbai coast.&nbsp;
Prime Minister Narendra Modi is likely to lay the&nbsp;foundation of the memorial next month.
The memorial, which includes Shivaji's equestrian statue,&nbsp;an amphitheater, a museum and an under water aquarium, is&nbsp;proposed to come up on an elliptical rock 1.2 kms from the Raj&nbsp;Bhavan here.

Union minister Nitin Gadkari on Friday&nbsp;said he intends to build a structure taller than Dubai's&nbsp;iconic Burj Khalifa here in the memory of Maratha warrior&nbsp;Chhatrapati Shivaji

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