{"id":13405,"date":"2016-07-09T11:02:52","date_gmt":"2016-07-09T11:02:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/?p=13405"},"modified":"2016-07-09T11:02:52","modified_gmt":"2016-07-09T11:02:52","slug":"worlds-largest-charkha-spinning-wheels-unveiled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/worlds-largest-charkha-spinning-wheels-unveiled\/","title":{"rendered":"World\u2019s largest Charkha (spinning wheels) unveiled"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Question: Recently World\u2019s largest Charkha (spinning wheels) unveiled at-<\/strong><br \/>\n(a) New Delhi<br \/>\n(b) Mumbai<br \/>\n(c) Gandhinagar<br \/>\n(d) Jaipur<br \/>\n<strong>Ans. (a)<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Related facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">On 5 July 2016 the World\u2019s largest Charkha (spinning wheels) was unveiled by Kalraj Mishra, Union Minister for MSME at the Terminal 3 of IGI Airport, New Delhi.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">The idea behind displaying the world\u2019s biggest charkha at the country\u2019s \u201cbusiest airport\u201d is to highlight India\u2019s quest to foster an egalitarian society as demonstrated by Mahatma Gandhi, the father of the nation.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">It is 9 ft wide, 17 ft tall and 30 ft long.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">It was built in 55 days by a team of 42 highly skilled carpenters hailing from Ahmedabad.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">The four-tones Charkha made from high-quality Burma teak wood is estimated to last for over 50 years.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Reference:<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/pib.nic.in\/newsite\/PrintRelease.aspx?relid=146820\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/pib.nic.in\/newsite\/PrintRelease.aspx?relid=146820<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: Recently World\u2019s largest Charkha (spinning wheels) unveiled at- (a) New Delhi (b) Mumbai (c) Gandhinagar (d) Jaipur Ans. (a) Related facts: On 5 July 2016 the World\u2019s largest Charkha (spinning wheels) was unveiled by Kalraj Mishra, Union Minister for MSME at the Terminal 3 of IGI Airport, New Delhi. The idea behind displaying the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13306,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1137],"tags":[2541],"class_list":["post-13405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mis","tag-miscellaneous-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13405\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}