Mahakal Standard Time should replace GMT: Education Minister

Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan has proposed that 'Mahakal Standard Time' should replace 'Greenwich Mean Time (GMT)'. He stated that Ujjain in Madhya Pradesh was "the original centre of time calculation". He further said, "We have also urged scientific communities and thinkers to reflect on whether the nomenclature and framework of time calculation...can be revisited."