Beauty and facilities. Review on Chandigarh

Chandi garh is a place where you can enjoy the atmosphere of a hill station and facilities of a metropolitian city as it is based just near the mountains you can visit the famous mansa devi temple and shimla is just 3 hours by road from there so you can go any time there and it is avery well planned city so there is very less dirty ness

and their are lots of thing to see in chandigarh like rose garden ,rock garden and the lake it is nothing more tension relieving then walking around the lake at night

etc so its worthy to go there.nad I advise you to go there alone or with any one as chandigarh is a hapenning place .people come here to enjoy and live the life of a luxury

GENESIS OF THE CITY

India attained Independence in 1947; but in the process the territory of British India was partitioned to form India and Pakistan. The large and prosperous Province of Punjab, was divided and Lahore, its capital, fell within the borders of Pakistan, leaving Indian Punjab without a capital. The loss of Lahore, a city much loved by its inhabitants, was keenly felt by those who had been compelled to migrate to India. In March, 1948, the Government of Punjab in consultation with the Government of India, approved a 114.59 sq. km tract of land at the foot of the Shivalik Hills in Ropar district as the site of the new capital. An existing village gave its name (Chandi - Goddess of Power + garh - fortress) to the new city.

The decision to build a new city seemed like an extravagant decision to some at the time, but there were practical justifications. After partition, the population of all the existing towns in East Punjab had more than doubled on account of the migration of displaced persons from Pakistan. As a government publication pointed out: ''Most of these towns, even before partition, lacked essential amenities such as adequate drainage and water supply and none of them had schools or hospitals which could meet the normal needs of the population according to modern standards for such services.''

The new city was needed not only to serve as a capital but also to resettle thousands of refugees who had been uprooted from West Punjab. India's first Prime Minister, Jawaharlal Nehru enthusiastically supported the project and look sustained interest in its execution. When he visited the project on April 2, 1952, he declared: ''Let this be a new town symbolic of the freedom of India, unfettered by the traditions of the past, an expression of the nation's faith in the future....The new capital of Punjab will be christened as Chandigarh-a name symbolic of the valiant spirit of the Punjabis. Chandigarh is rightly associated with the name of Goddess Chandi -- Shakti, or power.''

THE SITE

After an extensive aerial survey, then the Capital Project Administrator, P.N. Thapar and Chief Engineer, P.L. Verma selected the site -- a sub-mountainous area of the then Ambala district about 240 km north of New Delhi, the capital of the republic. The area was a flat, gently sloping plain of agricultural land dotted with groves of mango trees which marked the sites of 24 villages or hamlets -- one of which was named Chandigarh on account of its temple dedicated to the goddess.

The general ground level of the site ranges from 305 to 366 meters with a 1 per cent grade giving adequate drainage. To the northeast are the foothills of the Himalayas -- the Shivalik Range -- rising abruptly to about 1524 meters and a dramatic natural backdrop. One seasonal stream, the Patiali ki Rao, lies on the western side of the city and another, the Sukhna Choe, on the eastern side. A third, smaller seasonal stream flows through the very center of Chandigarh. The area along this streambed has been turned into a series of public gardens called the Leisure Valley.