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Kunhiraman completed the sculpture without taking any remuneration. During the construction, the District Collector ordered to stop the construction of the sculpture by saying it was obscene. But K. Karunakaran, who was the Chief Minister at that time intervened and suggested the completion of the sculpture upon the request of Kunhiraman. In October 2022, it was adjudged  as the largest merperson sculpture in the world by the Guinness Book of World Records.
K. Karunakaran Guinness Book of World Records