The new Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh, Mohan Yadav, has announced an unusual goal to establish Ujjain as the place through which the Prime Meridian passes.
India's standard time was known in the world some 300 years ago. However, Paris started to set the time and later, it was adopted by the British, who considered Greenwich the Prime Meridian: MP CM Mohan Yadav
The newly elected chief minister stated that some 300 years back, India set the standard time of the world and that an instrument to establish the fact was still available in Madhya Pradesh's Ujjain
Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Mohan Yadav said in the state Assembly that his government would prove that “Ujjain is the global Prime Meridian”, and that before Paris and Greenwich, India set global time.
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