A Sub-group of the Union Ministry of Culture, headed by Gopal Krishna Gandhi, has submitted a list of 2,000 sites across India visited by Mahatma Gandhi during the freedom movement, to the government for development as heritage sites.

The list was submitted to the ministry after collecting details about the places visited by Gandhi during the freedom movement, West Bengal Governor Gopal Krishna Gandhi said on Saturday.

The Governor was here for a conference organised by the Indian Institute of Advanced Studies on the occasion of completion of 50 years of the journal, Seminar.

The list of sites has been arranged alphabetically beginning with Aat village in Gujarat, which Gandhi had visited during the Dandi March, and ends with Zulfipur in Bihar.

He said Mahatma Gandhi had visited Shimla, the summer capital during the British Raj 11 times between 1921 and

1946. He was often accompanied by Madan Mohan Malviya and Lala Lajpat Rai on these visits. Some of the places in Shimla visited by Gandhi included Manorville, the residence of Rajkumari Amrit Kaur in the Summer Hill locality, now under the control of AIIMS, New Delhi.

He added that the trial of Gopal Godse in the assassination case of Gandhi had taken place at Peterhoff, which is now a luxury hotel under the HP Tourism Development Corporation.