bhaskaracharya astronomy research centre in ahmadnagar,maharashtra and mr. dinesh nisang is asociate with. he took initiative to do experiment to find out the circumference of the earth.
in India we orgenise the experiment on deffrent place like as, Meerut(Jahidpur and Modipuram), Jantar Mantar(Delhi), Barc -Ahmad nagar ,Banglore.
from 3 to 7 feb 09 in CTE ,lucknow,up.a teacher traning programme was held.under the guidline of JD and DIOS of up education department. teacher from meerut,saharanpur,lakhimpur khiri,lucknow and unnao district had been involve to know how we can measure the circumfrence of the earth.all teacher and resource person was very exited for this experiment. pole lenth was 542 cm. and shadow was 535 cm.
The Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics Pune, India