As has been mentioned already, the Vivekananda Rock Memorial is to comprise two main structions, namely, (1) the Vivekananda Mandapam housing the statue of Swami Vivekananda and (2) the Shripada Mandapam around the 'Shripadam'. These two structures will the at a distance of about 60 feet from each other and on different elevations of the Rock, though on a single central line, running south-east to north-west, approximately.

Distance between the Twin Vivekananda Rocks, the Twin Vivekananda Rocks, the Major and the Minor.
220'-0'

Dimensions of the Vivekananda Rock, the Memorial-site
534'x426'

Total area
About 4 acres

Altitude
55'-0'

Location
South-east of Kanyakumari Temple situated at the southern tip of the Mainland

Distance between
the Rock and the shore
(Entrance gate of the
breakwater-wall)
About 1600'-0'

The stone-dressing work implies a full-fledged smithy section to ensure a perennial supply of re-sharpened chisels of various types to stoneartisans. Accordingly, a Smithy Department was set up in the Committee's spacious stone-dressing yard.

A diffcult but an urgent task to be executed to facilitate construction work on the Rock was some arrangement for the supply of electric power from the shore to the Rock.
The Committee preferred to lay a submarine cable in the sea-bed for that purose. They laying of about 1600 feet cable line in the intervening seabed to take power from teh shore to the Rock, was executed by the State Electricity Board of Tamil Nadu.