Sector 17, which is the city and district centre, houses the administrative and state government offices, as well as shopping malls, banks and other offices. Punjab and Haryana High Court at Chandigarh (also known simply as Chandigarh High Court) has original as well as appellate and supervisory jurisdiction over all matters pertaining to Chandigarh, Punjab and Haryana. In the north, the capital complex, consisting of the Secretariat, Legislative Assembly and High Court, with the hills as a background dominating the city. The city is divided into four major work areas. It hasnt grown in a haphazard way as some of other Indian cities have. Chandigarh is one of the best planned cities of India. Each sector of the city is designed with its own shops, academic, and health care buildings, and places of worship, open spaces, greenery and the residential areas. Chandigarh is divided into 47 self-contained sectors. One can see architectural genius in the neat geometrical design of residential quarters, reinforced concrete structures and self-contained area layouts. Today, the city is home to more than 900 000 people living in harmonious conditions that are considered to be the best in the country.
It is the first planned city in independent India. When the latter died in an air crash in 1950, the work was entrusted to renowned Swiss born, French architect Edouard 'Le Corbusier' Jeanneret who created Chandigarh as a city of "Sun, Space and Verdure" to fulfill basic functions of working, living, and care of body and spirit. Architects Albert Mayer and Mathew Novicki drew the initial plans in New York. The government of the state decided to build a new city at the foot of the Shivalik hills. Lahore, the historical capital of Punjab was ceded to Pakistan and Chandigarh was conceived to be a symbol of India's freedom. The birth of this modern, youngest and vibrant city was an act of anguish and drama that took place at the time of partition of India and Pakistan. It is the capital to two northern Indian states Punjab and Haryana besides being a union territory in itself. The political position of Chandigarh is quite ambiguous for anybody not knowing the city well.
With the lowest crime rates in the country, you can feel safe at any hour. Because of this, Chandigarh is a good place to visit if you need a break from the constant flow of which is often said to assault the senses, and can be overwhelming to foreign travelers.Ĭhandigarh is also a very secure city. When you are approaching the city, you would see the jagged skyline of the Shivalik Hills looming large over the city and the faint image of an old temple dedicated to Goddess Chandi (15 km from Chandigarh) from which the city got its name.Ĭhandigarh may appear oddly familiar to Western visitors and idiosyncratic to the rest of India. The most striking thing about the city is the expanse of resplendent blue sky with the mountains in the backdrop.
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