It’s a great pleasure relaunching the updated version of the Website on Kurukshetra Development Board.

Kurukshetra is popularly known as the land of the epic Mahabharata and Shrimad Bgagavadgita. It is well known that at the outset of the battle lord Krishna delivered the Bhagawatgita- the culmination of the perennial wisdom of living, profoundly realistic and practicable for all times and circumstances. It advocates a divine path towards individual as well as collective emancipation – it synthesizes the material and spiritual as well as the secular and sacred. In this eternal message Lord Krishna elucidated three cardinal yogas viz- the karma (right action without any desire), jnana (Supreme knowledge) and bhakti (complete devotion).

Kurukshetra is known all over India for its sanctity and rich cultural heritage. Shrouded in the halo of myths and realities, it has allured attention since the earliest times as a famous place of pilgrimage and centre of Vedic civilization and learning. The founder of the land king Kuru was the common ancestor of Kauravas and Pandavas and he practiced austere penance to make this land righteous and  that is why in the very first verse of Gita, Kurukshetra is prefixed by the adjective dharmakshetra.

It is one of the ancient pilgrimages of India. Kurukshetra has a long and varied history. The artifacts unearthed from the scientific excavations of archaeological sites within the vicinity of Kurukshetra also throw light on the history and culture of the land. The glory of the land had spread even to the south East Asian countries like Laos and Cambodia in the past and is now spreading its light all over the world.

Over the years, ever since the establishment of Kurukshetra Development Board, Kurukshetra has been developed into a pilgrimage and cultural tourism destination. The land of Gita offers quite a lot of sightseeing places to the visitors and tourists such as the  one and only Srikrishna Museum, Kurukshetra Panorama and Science Centre, Kalpana Chawla Planetarium, the sacred  Jyotisar, Sannehit Sarovar, Brahmasarovar- the largest man made bathing tank in India, the Medieval monument Sheikh Chehli’s Tomb- a 17th cent. Mughal edifice, and the one and only Shaktipitha in Haryana called Bhadrakali and the excavated Archaeological site and site museum at Harsha ka tila, Thanesar and the Gulzarilal Nanda Memorial.

Kurukshetra has the unique privilege of celebrating the important festival called Kurukshetra Utsav-Gita Jayanti Samaroh which falls on Shukla Ekadashi of Margasirsha month. The other occasion for which Kurukshetra is known all over the country, is the fair on the occasion of solar eclipse. These fairs draw millions of pilgrims to the sacred land Kurukshetra.

 This website is a window through which the glimpses of the rich heritage of Kurukshetra can be seen and understood.