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local resident Lala Balbir Singh and is hence also named the Balbir Clock Tower. Its construction was completed in the year 1953 and it was inaugurated by the then
Railways Minister Lal Bahadur Shastri. A commemorative plaque inside the premises of the tower details this history. The city became the hub of education and was made the capital of Uttarakhand state in the year 2000. It became a part of the Smart Cities Mission with nine smart city projects as a part of its development.
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and ruled here, leading to its widespread development. He provided them with land, fostered trade, dug canals, sank wells and raised the revenue to a lakh and a quarter of rupees though after his death in 1770, it was successively annexed by surrounding tribes of
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by John Forest, in 1860. The edict was known as
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the northernmost limit of the surveys done by the founder of ASI Alexander
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