"Ujjain Is Prime Meridian": Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Wants To "Correct Time"
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Mohan Yadav said, "It was our (Ujjain's) time that was known in the world, but Paris started to set the time and later, it was adopted by the British who considered Greenwich the Prime Meridian"
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. He announced this in the assembly this week, declaring that Ujjain was the place through the zero degree longitude passed before it was overtaken by Paris.
Currently, the Prime Meridian passes through Greenwich in England – a system adopted in 1884.
"Ujjain is the global Prime Meridian", Mr Yadav said, stressing that he would push to "correct the time of the world".
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