Mizoram Remote Sensing Applcn Centre erects stone at Tropic of Cancer

AIZAWL: Mizoram Remote Sensing Application Centre ( MIRSAC), Directorate of Science and Technology and Geography Association of Mizoram ( GAM) today erected a stone at a place where the Tropic of Cancer runs through Mizoram, an official statement said.

The stone was set up and a hoarding put up at Maubuang Lungsai hamlet in Aizawl district on the World Bank-funded road linking Aizawl and south Mizoram's Lunglei town, the statement said.

R K Lallianthanga, Chief Scientific Officer of the Directorate of Science and Technology, said that the Tropic of Cancer runs through 23.5 degree Latitude and the imaginary line was identified with the data of the Survey of India's topographical map and with the help of the Global Positioning System (GPS).