why 82°30'E has been selected as standard meridian of india
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India is a country with is large E-W extent
(i) To avoid confusion in timings of train and plame etc, the local time of 82°30'E meridian has been adopted as the Indian Standard time (IST).
(iii) The 82½° E Meridian was chosen because it passes through more or less central part of India
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