As the mercury crosses 40 degree mark in the city and several south Bengal districts, the state health department directed government hospitals to set up heatstroke management units across the state.
The statue has been installed at the park created near Lakha Banjara Lake in the city by Sagar Smart City Development Authority. The park has also been named as the Atal Park.
The capital city of Bhubaneswar and neighbouring Cuttack city logged 40 degree C maximum daytime temperature.
Mercury has dipped in north India, including Delhi, due to cold winds.
According to the Meteorological Centre, Bhubaneswar officials, severe cold wave conditions will continue to prevail in several parts of Odisha for the next two to three days.
Snowfall began at about 4 am in the morning and continued for the entire day, enveloping many parts of Rudraprayag district in a blanket of white.
Till now, only two spacecraft have been to Mercury, NASA's Mariner 10 which flew past the planet in 1974 and 1975 and the US space agency's Messenger which orbited the planet between 2011 and 2015.
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