Carterputi: Jimmy Carter's uncanny India connection; a village named after him
PTC News Desk: Jimmy Carter, oldest former president of the United States and a Nobel Peace Prize laureate, passed away at the age of 100 on December 29. However Jimmy Carter shared an uncanny connection with India as a village in Haryana's Gurugram is named after 39th President of the United States.
The village, Carterpuri in Gurugram has been named after Carter who visited the village in 1978. He was the third president to visit India
As stated by the Carter Center, on January 3, 1978, President Jimmy Carter and First Lady Rosalynn Carter visited the village of Daulatpur Nasirabad, located an hour southwest of New Delhi.
“The visit was so successful that shortly after, village residents renamed the area ‘Carterpuri’ and remained in contact with the White House for the rest of President Carter’s tenure. The trip made a lasting impression: Festivities abounded in the village when President Carter won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2002, and January 3 remains a holiday in Carterpuri,” the Carter Centre said.
“In fact, since the Carter administration, the US and India have worked closely on energy, humanitarian aid, technology, space cooperation, maritime security, disaster relief, counterterrorism, and more. In the mid-2000s, the United States and India struck a landmark agreement to work toward full civil nuclear cooperation, and bilateral trade has since skyrocketed,” the centre said.
The villagers celebrated Jimmy Carter's Nobel Peace Prize win in 2002, and they observe January 3, the day he visited their village, as a local holiday. They now plan to hold a prayer meeting in his honor.
Carter, the longest-lived president in US history, passed away on Sunday at the age of 100.
- PTC NEWS
