Zero Mile Center Of India: Everything definitely has some center. Every country has a geographical center. In the same way it is also of India. It was made by the British. This place falls in a city of India, where Zero Mile was also installed. The special thing is that from this city all the four major metropolitan cities of India Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai and Kolkata are at almost equal distance.
Zero Mile is here
Actually, when the British divided India, after the partition, Nagpur was considered the center of the whole country and a stone was established here, which was named ‘Zero Mile’. In archaeological language, the place where ‘Zero Mile’ has been installed in Nagpur is the geographical center of India.
It is used to measure the distance of other states of the country.
This center was also used to measure the distance from Nagpur to other states of the country. The special thing is that Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata and Chennai are almost at equal distance from here, the distance of all these metros comes around 1000 kilometers from here.
However, it has also been said in some reports that after the partition of India and the formation of Pakistan, it is no longer the center of India. According to those reports, the center of India has now shifted to a small village in Madhya Pradesh.
Zero Mile is the center of United India
Zero Mile or Milestone is a historical monument of India. It was made in the year 1907 during the GTS (Great Trigonometry Survey). The purpose behind this survey was to measure the entire sub-continent of India. During this survey, Nagpur was considered the center of the whole of India. Although Nagpur has been considered the center of United India, not of present India. When Pakistan and Bangladesh were also part of India.
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