Chandigarh#Chandigarh UT Administration

The name Chandigarh is a compound of Chandi and Garh. Chandi refers to the Hindu goddess Chandi and Garh means fortress.{{cite web|url=http://www.cii.in/chandigarh|title=CII|work=cii.in|access-date=12 March 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150406234407/http://www.cii.in/chandigarh|archive-date=6 April 2015|url-status=live}} The name is derived from Chandi Mandir, an ancient temple devoted to Chandi near the city in Panchkula District.{{cite web|url=http://www.newkerala.com/states-of-india/chandigarh.php|title=Chandigarh: Info on geography, history, government, districts, business, economy, travel, rivers, education, food, arts, culture, music, dance, festivals|work=newkerala.com|access-date=12 March 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150317182551/http://www.newkerala.com/states-of-india/chandigarh.php|archive-date=17 March 2015|url-status=live}}

The motif or sobriquet of "The City of Beauty" was derived from the City Beautiful movement, which was a popular philosophy in North American urban planning during the 1890s and 1900s. Architect Albert Mayer, the initial planner of Chandigarh, lamented the American rejection of City Beautiful concepts and declared, "We want to create a beautiful city..."{{cite book|last1=Kalia|first1=Ravi|title=Chandigarh : in search of an identity|date=1987|publisher=Southern Illinois University Press|location=Carbondale|isbn=978-0809313105|page=54|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-s0g47oeb34C&q=city+beautiful}} The phrase was used as a logo in official publications in the 1970s and is now how the city describes itself.{{cite book|last1=Office of the Registrar General, R. K. Goswami|title=Census of India, 1971, Series 25, Chandigarh: Census atlas|date=1970|location=India|pages=20, 22, 33|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gfInAAAAMAAJ&q=City+Beautiful}}{{cite web|title=Official website of the Chandigarh Administration|url=http://chandigarh.gov.in/|publisher=Chandigarh Administration|access-date=8 June 2020}}

File:Punjab 1909.jpg in colonial India (1909). During the Partition of India along the Radcliffe Line, the capital of the Punjab Province, Lahore, fell into West Punjab, Pakistan. The necessity to have a new capital for East Punjab in India then, led to the development of Chandigarh.]]

File:Indus Valley Artefacts Chandigarh.jpg artefacts excavated from Sector 17, Chandigarh]]

File:Pinjore Gardens.JPG located near Chandigarh]]

Some Indus Valley artefacts have been discovered on the site of Chandigarh, suggesting that the area was home to some settlements of the Indus Valley civilisation.{{Cite web|last=Staff|date=14 November 2008|title=Chandigarh was part of Harappan civilization 5,000 years ago|url=https://www.oneindia.com/2008/11/14/chandigarh-harappan-civilisation-5000-years-ago-1226661360.html|access-date=19 August 2021|website=Oneindia}}

Present-day Chandigarh was also the site of a short-lived late 18th-century principality, with a small fort at Mani Majra. Many villages that predate the city are still inhabited within the modern blocks of some sectors, including Burail and Attawa, while several other such villages lie on the margins of the city.{{cite web|url=http://chandigarh.gov.in/cmp2031/villages.pdf|title=villages.pdf|publisher=chandigarh.gov.in|access-date=9 September 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151223231037/http://chandigarh.gov.in/cmp2031/villages.pdf|archive-date=23 December 2015|url-status=live}}

As part of the partition of India in 1947, the former Indian province of Punjab was divided into two parts, the mostly Hindu and Sikh East Punjab in India, and the mostly Muslim West Punjab in Pakistan.{{cite web|url=http://www.citybeautiful.in/chandigarhhistory.aspx|title=Chandigarh history|work=City Beautiful|access-date=21 March 2015|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150505154250/http://www.citybeautiful.in/chandigarhhistory.aspx|archive-date=5 May 2015}} The capital of undivided Punjab, Lahore, had become part of Pakistan after the partition. Instead of shifting the capital to an already existing and established city, Jawaharlal Nehru, the first Prime Minister of India, envisioned an altogether new and modern city to be built to serve as the capital of Punjab.{{cite web|url=http://www.chandigarh.co.uk/history.html|title=Chandigarh History|work=Chandigarh Guide|access-date=12 March 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150221092038/http://www.chandigarh.co.uk/history.html|archive-date=21 February 2015|url-status=live}}{{cite web|url=http://chandigarh.gov.in/knowchd_general.htm|title=About Chandigarh|publisher=Government of Chandigarh|access-date=12 March 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110602043256/http://chandigarh.gov.in/knowchd_general.htm|archive-date=2 June 2011|url-status=live}} Partap Singh Kairon, then the Chief Minister of East Punjab, and Edward Nirmal Mangat Rai, then the Chief Secretary of East Punjab, were instrumental in creating Chandigarh as the capital of the state.{{cite web|last1=Bangash|first1=Yaqoob Khan|title=When Christians were partitioned in the Punjab-IV|url=https://www.thenews.com.pk/tns/detail/593471-whenchristians-were-partitioned-in-the-punjab-iv|work=The News International|access-date=10 January 2023|language=English|date=5 January 2020|quote=Working closely with the chief minister of East Punjab, Pratab Singh Kairon, Mangat Rai was key in the creation of Chandigarh as the new capital, the modern ‘replacement’ for Lahore, as it was piqued to be.}}

In 1949, the American planner and architect Albert Mayer was commissioned to design a new city to be called "Chandigarh". The government carved out Chandigarh from about fifty Puadhi-speaking villages in the then-state of East Punjab, India.{{cite news|title=Displaced for making Chandigarh, their marginalization is still on|url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/chandigarh/Displaced-for-making-Chandigarh-their-marginalization-is-still-on/articleshow/13136226.cms|work=The Times of India|date=12 May 2014|access-date=21 December 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151017085022/http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/chandigarh/Displaced-for-making-Chandigarh-their-marginalization-is-still-on/articleshow/13136226.cms|archive-date=17 October 2015|url-status=live}} Shimla was the temporary capital of the state until Chandigarh was completed. Albert Mayer developed a superblock-based city interspersed with green spaces, with an emphasis on cellular neighbourhoods and traffic segregation. His site plan took advantage of natural land characteristics; the land's gentle grade promoted proper drainage. Mayer stopped his work on the city after his architect-partner Matthew Nowicki died in a plane crash in 1950. Government officials recruited Le Corbusier to succeed Mayer and Nowicki, who utilised many elements of Mayer's original plan without attributing them to him.{{cite journal|last=Banerjee|first=Tridib|title=U.S. Planning Expeditions to Postcolonial India: From Ideology to Innovation in Technical Assistance|journal=Journal of the American Planning Association|year=2009|volume=75|issue=2|pages=193–208|doi=10.1080/01944360902790711|s2cid=220461503}}

Le Corbusier designed many administration buildings, including the High Court, the Palace of Assembly, and the Secretariat Building. Le Corbusier also designed the general layout of the city, dividing it into sectors. Chandigarh hosts the largest of Le Corbusier's many Open Hand sculptures, standing 26 metres high. The Open Hand (La Main Ouverte) is a recurring motif in Le Corbusier's architecture, a sign for him of "peace and reconciliation. It is open to give and open to receive." It represents what Le Corbusier called the "Second Machine Age".{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qG-9cwHOcCIC&pg=PA613|title=Frommer's India|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160105043629/https://books.google.com/books?id=qG-9cwHOcCIC&pg=PA613|archive-date=5 January 2016|year=2010|author=Pippa de Bruyn|publisher=John Wiley & Sons|page=613|isbn=9780470556108}} Two of the six monuments planned in the Capitol Complex which has the High Court, the Assembly, and the Secretariat, remain incomplete. These include Geometric Hill and Martyrs Memorial. Drawings were made, and they were begun in 1956, but they were never completed.{{cite news|url=http://www.indianexpress.com/news/capitol-complex-as-le-corbusier-wanted-it/635844/|title=Capitol Complex, as Le Corbusier wanted it, remains incomplete|work=The Indian Express|date=19 June 2010|access-date=2 July 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131026061415/http://www.indianexpress.com/news/capitol-complex-as-le-corbusier-wanted-it/635844|archive-date=26 October 2013|url-status=live}}

The capital city was officially shifted from Shimla to Chandigarh on 21 September 1953, though Chandigarh was formally inaugurated by India's first president, Rajendra Prasad on 7 October 1953.{{Cite journal|year=2011|title=Abstracts from the Indian Psychological Science Congress, 12–13 October 2011, Chandigarh, India|url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/e682942012-001|access-date=5 October 2020|website=PsycEXTRA Dataset|doi=10.1037/e682942012-001|url-access=subscription}}

On 1 November 1966, after a long-drawn movement demanding the formation of a Punjabi state, the former state of Punjab was split in two. The western and northern mostly Punjabi-speaking portion became the present-day state of Punjab, while the eastern and southern Hindi- and Haryanvi-speaking areas became Haryana. Chandigarh ended up being located on the border of the two states, and both of them moved to incorporate the city into their respective territories. However, the city of Chandigarh was controlled directly by the central government and was to serve as the shared capital of the two states until a resolution could be reached.{{cite web|url=http://www.haryana-online.com/History/history_1966-.htm|title=1st November 1966 – Haryana Day|publisher=Haryana Online|access-date=8 July 2013|url-status=usurped|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131002001513/http://haryana-online.com/History/history_1966-.htm|archive-date=2 October 2013}} It has been claimed by industrialists that large real-estate projects have stagnated since the creation of Chandigarh in Punjab and Haryana as an economic rival city would be perceived as a city that could be used as capital instead of Chandigarh, hence weakening claims over Chandigarh.{{cite news |last1=Vasdev |first1=Kanchan |date=6 April 2022 |title=Explained: Why Punjab has staked claim on Chandigarh |url=https://indianexpress.com/article/explained/explained-punjab-resolution-chandigarh-capital-7848602/ |work=The Indian Express |access-date=22 January 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240613171402/https://indianexpress.com/article/explained/explained-punjab-resolution-chandigarh-capital-7848602/ |archive-date=13 June 2024}}

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Chandigarh is located by the foothills of the Shivalik Range of the Himalayas in northwest India. It covers an area of approximately 114 km². It borders the states of Punjab and Haryana. The exact geographic coordinates of Chandigarh are {{Coord|30.74|N|76.79|E|}}.{{cite web|url=https://www.fallingrain.com/world/IN/05/Chandigarh.html|title=Falling Rain Genomics, Inc – Chandigarh|work=Falling Rain Genomics|access-date=21 March 2015|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090116054605/http://www.fallingrain.com/world/IN/5/Chandigarh.html|archive-date=16 January 2009}} It has an average elevation of 321 metres (1053 ft).

The city, lying in the northern plains, includes a vast area of flat, fertile land. Its northeast covers sections of Bhabar, while the remainder of its terrain is part of the Terai.{{cite web|url=http://www.bharatonline.com/chandigarh/travel-tips/location.html|title=Chandigarh > Travel tips > Location|work=bharatonline.com|access-date=26 March 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141223134749/http://www.bharatonline.com/chandigarh/travel-tips/location.html|archive-date=23 December 2014|url-status=live}} Its surrounding cities are Mohali, New Chandigarh, Patiala, Zirakpur and Rupnagar in Punjab, and Panchkula and Ambala in Haryana.

Chandigarh is situated 44 km (28 miles) north of Ambala, 229 km (143 miles) southeast of Amritsar, and 250 km (156 miles) north of Delhi.

File:Kasauli Hills Snow.jpg

Chandigarh has a humid subtropical climate (Köppen: Cwa) characterised by a seasonal rhythm: very hot summers, mild winters, unreliable rainfall, and great temperature variation ({{convert|−1|to|45|°C|°F|1|disp=or}}). The average annual rainfall is {{convert|1110.7|mm|in|2|disp=or}}.{{cite web|title=Know Chandigarh|url=http://chandigarh.nic.in/knowchd_general.htm|website=Official Website of Chandigarh Administration|access-date=2 April 2020|date=21 July 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110721164933/http://chandigarh.nic.in/knowchd_general.htm|archive-date=21 July 2011}} The city also receives occasional winter rains from the Western Disturbance originating over the Mediterranean Sea. The western disturbances bring rain predominantly from mid-December until the end of April, which can be heavier sometimes with strong wind and hail if the weather turns colder (during March–April months), which usually proves disastrous to local crops. Cold winds usually tend to come from the Himalayas that lie to the north, which receive snowfall during wintertime.{{citation needed|date=August 2023}}

The city experiences the following seasons and the respective average temperatures:

• Spring: During spring (from February-end to mid-April), temperatures vary between a maximum of {{convert|13|to|20|°C|°F|1|disp=or}} and a minimum of {{convert|5|to|12|°C|°F|1|disp=or}}.
• Autumn: In autumn (from September-end to mid-November), the temperature may rise to a maximum of {{convert|30|°C|disp=or}}. Temperatures usually remain between {{convert|10|and|22|°C|°F|1|disp=or}} in autumn. The minimum temperature is around {{convert|6|°C|1|disp=or}}.
• Summer: The temperature in summer (from mid-April to mid-June) usually peaks at around {{convert|43|°C|1|disp=or}} in mid-June, and generally varies between {{convert|38|and|42|°C|1}}.
• Monsoon: During the monsoon season (from mid-June to mid-September), Chandigarh receives moderate to heavy rainfall and sometimes heavy to very heavy rainfall (generally during August or September). Usually, the rain-bearing monsoon winds blow from the southwest/southeast. The city mostly receives heavy rain from the south (which is mainly persistent rain), but it generally receives most of its rain during the monsoon season either from the northwest or the northeast. The maximum amount of rain received by the city of Chandigarh during the monsoon season is {{convert|195.5|mm|in|2|disp=or}} in a single day.
• Winter: Winters (November-end to February-end) are mild but can get chilly during peak winter weeks. Average temperatures in the winter generally fluctuate between a maximum of {{convert|5|to|14|°C|°F|1|disp=or}} and a minimum of {{convert|-1|to|5|°C|°F|1|disp=or}}. Rain usually comes from the west during winter, and it rains for 2–3 days, sometimes with hailstorms.

{{Chandigarh weatherbox}}Chandigarh has been ranked 27th best "National Clean Air City" (under Category 1 >10L Population cities) in India.{{Cite web |date=7 September 2024 |title=Swachh Vayu Sarvekshan 2024 |url=https://prana.cpcb.gov.in/ncapServices/robust/fetchFilesFromDrive/Swachh_Vayu_Survekshan_2024_Result.pdf |website=Swachh Vayu Sarvekshan 2024}}

Most of Chandigarh is covered by dense banyan and eucalyptus plantations. Ashoka, cassia, mulberry and other trees flourish in the forested ecosystem.{{Cite web|url=http://chandigarhforestflora.in:80/home/species|title=Chandigarh Forest Flora – Comprehensive Database|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180331194535/http://chandigarhforestflora.in/home/species|archive-date=31 March 2018|url-status=live|access-date=8 December 2018}} The city is surrounded by forests that sustain many animal and plant species.{{cite web|url=http://chandigarh.gov.in/green_suk_wild4.htm|title=Official Website of Chandigarh Administration|work=chandigarh.gov.in|access-date=12 March 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141021164858/http://chandigarh.gov.in/green_suk_wild4.htm|archive-date=21 October 2014|url-status=live}} Deer, sambars, barking deer, parrots, woodpeckers, and peacocks inhabit the protected forests. Sukhna Lake hosts a variety of ducks and geese and attracts migratory birds from parts of Siberia and Japan in the winter season.

The Parrot Bird Sanctuary Chandigarh provides a home to a large number of parrots. Sukhna Wildlife Sanctuary was declared a wildlife sanctuary in 1998.

File:Peacock at Leisure Valley, Chandigarh.jpg|alt=Peacock at Leisure Valley, Chandigarh|Peacock at Leisure Valley, Chandigarh

File:Junglefowl, Sukhna wildlife sanctuary, Chandigarh, India.JPG|Junglefowl, Sukhna wildlife sanctuary, Chandigarh

File:Sambar deer in City Forest Park,Chandigarh.jpg|Sambar deer in City Forest Park, Chandigarh

Two parrots at parrot bird sanctuary, Chandigarh, India.jpg|Parakeets at the Parrot Bird Sanctuary

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{{Main|Heritage Trees of Chandigarh}}

Many trees in Chandigarh are given the status of the natural heritage of the city. The Chandigarh government has identified a list of 31 trees as Heritage Trees. The Department of Forest & Wildlife Chandigarh Administration is the nodal department for this purpose and has published a detailed booklet about it. The trees in the city that are a hundred or more years old have been given heritage status.

Sukhna Lake, a 3 km² artificial rain-fed lake in Sector 1,{{Cite web|url=http://chandigarhtourism.gov.in/images/map.jpg|title=Map of Chandigarh|access-date=1 August 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160315091531/http://chandigarhtourism.gov.in/images/map.jpg|archive-date=15 March 2016|url-status=live}} was created in 1958 by damming the Sukhna Choe, a seasonal stream coming down from the Shivalik Hills.{{cite web|url=http://www.chandigarh.co.uk/tourist-attractions/sukhna-lake.html|title=Sukhna Lake – Chandigarh Sukhna Lake – Sukhna Lake of Chandigarh India|work=chandigarh.co.uk|access-date=21 March 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150116040456/http://www.chandigarh.co.uk/tourist-attractions/sukhna-lake.html|archive-date=16 January 2015|url-status=live}}

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Chandigarh has a belt of parks running from sectors. It is known for its green belts and other special tourist parks. Sukhna Lake itself hosts the Garden of Silence.{{cite web|url=https://kiboli.wordpress.com/2012/07/05/chandigarh-the-city-beautiful/img_2821/|title=The Garden of Silence – quieter end of Sukhna Lake|work=kiboli.wordpress.com|publisher=Wordpress|access-date=21 March 2015|date=4 July 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141223095124/https://kiboli.wordpress.com/2012/07/05/chandigarh-the-city-beautiful/img_2821/|archive-date=23 December 2014|url-status=live}} The Rock Garden,{{Cite web|url=https://pnrstatusirctc.in/places-visit-chandigarh-couples/|title=Nek Chand's Rock Garden in Chandigarh|date=10 June 2017|website=pnrstatusirctc.in|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170805021046/https://pnrstatusirctc.in/places-visit-chandigarh-couples/|archive-date=5 August 2017|url-status=live}}{{cite web|url=http://nekchand.com/about-nek-chand-2|title=About Nek Chand|access-date=21 March 2015|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150217070242/http://nekchand.com/about-nek-chand-2|archive-date=17 February 2015}} is located near the Sukhna Lake and has numerous sculptures made by using a variety of different discarded waste materials.{{cite web|url=http://www.chandigarh.co.uk/tourist-attractions/rock-garden.html|title=Rock Garden|access-date=21 March 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150109020538/http://www.chandigarh.co.uk/tourist-attractions/rock-garden.html|archive-date=9 January 2015|url-status=live}} The Zakir Hussain Rose Garden (which is also Asia's largest rose garden) contains nearly 825 varieties of roses in it and more than 32,500 varieties of other medicinal plants and trees.{{cite web|url=http://www.mapsofindia.com/chandigarh/rose-garden.html|title=Rose Garden of Chandigarh|access-date=21 March 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150323040257/http://www.mapsofindia.com/chandigarh/rose-garden.html|archive-date=23 March 2015|url-status=live}} Other gardens include the Garden of Fragrance in Sector 36, Garden of Palms in Sector 42, Butterfly Park in Sector 26, Valley of Animals in Sector 49, the Japanese Garden in Sector 31, the Terraced Garden in Sector 33, Shanti Kunj Garden, the Botanical garden and the Bougainvillea Garden.{{cite web|url=http://chandigarh.gov.in/green_leisure.htm|title=Official Website of Chandigarh Administration|access-date=21 March 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150128093142/http://chandigarh.gov.in/green_leisure.htm|archive-date=28 January 2015|url-status=live}} There is also the Government Museum and Art Gallery, Chandigarh in Sector 10.

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{{As of|2011}} India census, Chandigarh had a population of 1,055,450, giving it a density of about 9,252 (7,900 in 2001) persons per square kilometre.{{cite web|url=http://censusindia.gov.in/|title=Census of India Website : Office of the Registrar General & Census Commissioner, India|work=censusindia.gov.in|access-date=12 March 2015|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080511035603/http://censusindia.gov.in/|archive-date=11 May 2008}}{{cite web|url=http://www.ssachd.nic.in/disereport.htm|title=Census observations|work=Census of India|publisher=ssachd.nic.in|access-date=7 February 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160124231627/http://ssachd.nic.in/disereport.htm|archive-date=24 January 2016|url-status=dead}}

Males constitute 55% of the population and females 45%. The sex ratio is 818 females for every 1,000 males. The child-sex ratio is 880 females per thousand males. Chandigarh has an effective literacy rate of 86.77% (based on population 7 years and above), higher than the national average; with male literacy of 90.81% and female literacy of 81.88%. 10.8% of the population is under 6 years of age. The population of Chandigarh formed 0.09 per cent of India in 2011.{{cite web|title=Statistical Abstract of Chandigarh|url=http://chandigarh.gov.in/stat18/Abstract2018/stat18-T2.pdf|website=Official Website of Chandigarh|access-date=8 June 2020}}

There has been a substantial decline in the population growth rate in Chandigarh, with just 17.10% growth between 2001 and 2011. Since the 1951–1961 period, the growth rate has decreased from 394.13% to 17.10%, a likely cause being the rapid urbanisation and development in neighbouring cities.{{cite web|url=http://chandigarh.gov.in/cmp2031/demography.pdf|title=Chandigarh demographics|work=chandigarh.gov.in|access-date=21 March 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150513223903/http://chandigarh.gov.in/cmp2031/demography.pdf|archive-date=13 May 2015|url-status=live}} The urban population constitutes 97.25% of the total and the rural population makes up 2.75%, as there are only a few villages within Chandigarh, situated on its Western and South-Eastern border, and the majority of people live in the heart of Chandigarh.{{citation needed|date=March 2020}}

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English is the sole official language of Chandigarh. The majority of the population speaks Hindi (67.76%) while Punjabi is spoken by 22.02%.{{cite web|url=https://www.tribuneindia.com/news/chandigarh/after-mother-tongue-city-more-proficient-in-english/662470.html|title=After mother tongue, city more proficient in English|work=Tribuneindia News Service |date=3 October 2018|access-date=4 October 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181004103927/https://www.tribuneindia.com/news/chandigarh/after-mother-tongue-city-more-proficient-in-english/662470.html|archive-date=4 October 2018|url-status=live |last1=Service |first1=Tribune News }} Government schools use English, Hindi, and Punjabi textbooks.{{cite web|title=List of Text Books Prescribed for Classes I to X in Government Non-Model Schools of Chandigarh (UT) for the Session 2007–08|url=http://admser.chd.nic.in/uploadfiles/press/pressnote/pr1298.pdf|publisher=Chandigarh Administration Education Department|access-date=21 March 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110815071821/http://admser.chd.nic.in/uploadfiles/press/pressnote/pr1298.pdf|archive-date=15 August 2011|url-status=live}} The percentage of Punjabi speakers has fallen from 36% in 1981 to 22% in 2011, while that of Hindi speakers has increased from 51% to 78%.{{cite web|title=Households and household population by language mainly spoken in the household|url=http://lsi.gov.in:8081/jspui/bitstream/123456789/3323/1/47265_1981_HOS.pdf|work=Census of India 1981|publisher=Director of Census Operations, Chandigarh U.T.}}

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Hinduism is the predominant religion of Chandigarh followed by 80.71% of the population. Sikhism is the second most followed religion in the city, followed by 13.11% of the people, followed by Islam at 4.87%. Minorities are Christians at 0.83%, Jains at 0.19%, Buddhists at 0.11%, those that didn't state a religion at 0.10%, and others are 0.02%.{{Cite web|url=http://www.censusindia.gov.in/2011census/dchb/0401_PART_A_DCHB_CHANDIGARH.pdf|title=Census of India 2011 – Chandigarh|access-date=28 July 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170821191248/http://www.censusindia.gov.in/2011census/dchb/0401_PART_A_DCHB_CHANDIGARH.pdf|archive-date=21 August 2017|url-status=live}}

There are several places of worship located all over the city, with many in each sector, including the historic Mata Basanti Devi Mandir in Sector 24.{{Cite news|last=Gera|first=H. C.|date=23 February 2002|title=A century-old temple in Chandigarh|url=https://www.tribuneindia.com/2002/20020223/windows/main2.htm|work=The Tribune|access-date=29 May 2022}} The temple is dedicated to Goddess Shitala and specially visited by devotees during first Tuesday of Chaitra month after Holi. Chandi Mandir, Mata Mansa Devi Mandir and Mata Jayanti Devi Mandir are important Hindu temples located near Chandigarh.{{Cite news|date=3 April 2022|title=Chaitra Navratri fair kicks off at Mata Mansa Devi temple in Panchkula|url=https://www.hindustantimes.com/cities/chandigarh-news/chaitra-navratri-fair-kicks-off-at-mata-mansa-devi-temple-in-panchkula-101648931722357.html|access-date=27 May 2022|work=Punjab Times}}{{Cite news|date=12 February 2009|title=A sacred walk down a picturesque site|url=https://indianexpress.com/article/cities/chandigarh/a-sacred-walk-down-a-picturesque-site/|access-date=27 May 2022|work=The Indian Express}}Nada Sahib Gurudwara, a famous place for Sikh worship lies in its vicinity.{{cite web|url=http://www.chandigarh.co.uk/religious-places/index.html|title=Religious Places in Chandigarh|publisher=chandigarh.co.uk|access-date=9 September 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151017085022/http://www.chandigarh.co.uk/religious-places/index.html|archive-date=17 October 2015|url-status=live}} Apart from this, there are a couple of historical mosques in Manimajra and Burail.{{cite web|url=https://www.google.co.in/?gfe_rd=cr&gws_rd=ssl#q=masjids+in+chandigarh&rflfq=1&rlha=0&tbm=lcl|title=Masjids in Chandigarh|work=google.co.in|access-date=9 September 2015}} The Diocese of Simla and Chandigarh serves the Catholics of the city, with a co-cathedral in the city, which also governs most of the convent schools in Chandigarh.

The table below shows the data from the district nutrition profile of children below the age of 5 years, in Chandigarh, as of year 2020.

The table below shows the district nutrition profile of women in Chandigarh between the ages of 15 and 49 years, as of the year 2020.

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Article 239 of the Constitution of India provides for the administration of the Union Territories by the President through an administrator.{{Cite web|title=Constitution of India|url=https://www.constitutionofindia.net/constitution_of_india/the_union_territories/articles/Article%20239|access-date=17 May 2022|website=constitutionofindia.net}} Since 1984 the Governor of Punjab has served concurrently as the administrator of Chandigarh. Gulab Chand Kataria has been the administrator of the union territory since 27 July 2024.{{cite news|title=Will work together, says Punjab CM Bhagwant Mann after Gulab Chand Kataria appointed as new Governor|url=https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/punjab/will-work-together-says-punjab-cm-bhagwant-mann-after-gulab-chand-kataria-appointed-as-new-governor/article68456822.ece|work=The Hindu|agency=Press Trust of India|date=28 July 2024|access-date=28 July 2024}}

Chandigarh, as a union territory, is not entitled to a state-level election: thus State Assembly elections are not held and it is directly controlled by the central government. One seat for Chandigarh is allocated in the Lok Sabha elections held every five years.

Manish Tewari (INC) is the Member of Parliament elected in 2024 from the Chandigarh Lok Sabha constituency.

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The city is governed by a civic administration or local government headed by Municipal Commissioner Amit Kumar and Mayor Harpreet Kaur Babla.{{cite web |title=Municipal Corporation Chandigarh |url=http://www.mcchandigarh.gov.in/ |website=mcchandigarh.gov.in |access-date=5 February 2025}} The city comprises 35 wards represented by 35 elected councillors, and also nominates 9 councillors.{{Cite web|title=Wards {{!}} The official website of Municipal Corporation Chandigarh, Chandigarh Administration, India|url=http://mcchandigarh.gov.in/?q=wards|access-date=11 September 2020|website=mcchandigarh.gov.in}}{{cite web|title=Ward Map|url=http://chandigarh.gov.in/pdf/sec-map.pdf|website=chandigarh.gov.in|access-date=29 September 2020}} {{failed verification|date=September 2024}}

On 27 March 2022, Union Home Minister Amit Shah announced that the Chandigarh employees who were working under the Punjab service rules until 2022, would be working under the central civil services rules from 1 April 2022. The move was criticised by political parties such as the AAP, the INC and the Akali Dal.{{cite news|title=Chandigarh employees to be under central civil services rules: Amit Shah|url=https://www.tribuneindia.com/news/chandigarh/ut-employees-to-be-under-central-civil-services-rules-amit-shah-381287|access-date=27 March 2022|work=The Tribune|date=27 March 2022}}

Composition of Chandigarh Municipal Corporation after 2021 Chandigarh Municipal Corporation election as of December 2021:

The prime responsibilities of the civic body Municipal Corporation Chandigarh, are to ensure cleanliness and sanitation in the city, illumination of street lights, maintenance of parks, and sewerage disposal.{{Cite web|date=17 August 2020|title=How Chandigarh's four-pronged strategy is helping the city fight COVID-19 {{!}} Citizen Matters|url=https://citizenmatters.in/chandigarh-interview-k-k-yadav-municipal-commissioner-on-covid-19-battle-17818|access-date=11 September 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200817135458/https://citizenmatters.in/chandigarh-interview-k-k-yadav-municipal-commissioner-on-covid-19-battle-17818|archive-date=17 August 2020}} The city has both brick and pipe sewers laid in four phases.{{Cite web|date=11 September 2020|title=Plans afoot to revamp Chandigarh's over 5-decade-old sewerage system – Chandigarh – Hindustan Times|work=Hindustan Times |url=https://www.hindustantimes.com/chandigarh/plans-afoot-to-revamp-city-s-over-5-decade-old-sewerage-system/story-fIannhAlRyHlaEgZNawQdI.html|access-date=11 September 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200911060233/https://www.hindustantimes.com/chandigarh/plans-afoot-to-revamp-city-s-over-5-decade-old-sewerage-system/story-fIannhAlRyHlaEgZNawQdI.html|archive-date=11 September 2020}} In September 2020, the civic body announced that it would upgrade and renew the 50-year-old sewerage system. The pilot project for the 24x7 water supply is expected to begin in Chandigarh in May 2021, which was initially to start in September 2020 and end in March 2022. On 8 April 2021, the Chandigarh Smart City Ltd (CSCL) board is yet to take the final decision.{{Cite news|date=9 April 2021|title=Pilot project for 24x7 water supply in Chandigarh set to begin in May|work=Punjab Times|url=https://www.hindustantimes.com/cities/chandigarh-news/pilot-project-for-24x7-water-supply-in-chandigarh-set-to-begin-in-may-101617910371175.html|access-date=12 April 2021}}

In 2021, the BJP-ruled corporation had increased the water tariff by 1.5 to 2.5 times.{{Cite news|last=Sagar|first=Munieshwer A|date=31 March 2022|title=It's official: Water to cost more in Chandigarh from April 1|url=https://www.hindustantimes.com/cities/chandigarh-news/its-official-water-to-cost-more-in-chandigarh-from-april-1-101648678199707.html|access-date=17 May 2022|work=Hindustan Times}} This created a widespread discontent among the residents.{{cite news|title=Explained: 5 reasons why AAP scored big in Chandigarh municipal polls|url=https://indianexpress.com/article/explained/explained-why-aap-scored-big-in-chandigarh-municipal-polls-7693012/|access-date=27 December 2021|work=The Indian Express|date=27 December 2021}}

In 2021, there was an acute shortage of parking spaces. The problem was aggravated by an increase of 17% in parking rates by the Municipal Corporation.{{Cite magazine|date=4 February 2022|title=Parking fees hiked by 17% at 32 parking lots in Chandigarh|url=https://www.indiatoday.in/cities/chandigarh/story/parking-lot-fees-hiked-by-17-percent-zone-1-parking-chandigarh-municipal-corporation-parking-charges-1908953-2022-02-04|access-date=17 May 2022|magazine=India Today}} The increase in the waste collection charges, water tariff and property tax rates during the last five years 2016 to 2021 were unpopular among the public.

During the COVID-19 pandemic in India, concerns were raised about whether sufficient relief measures had been taken by the local government. The sitting Councillors were accused of not being found to be approachable when the public needed support.

In 2016, Chandigarh was the second cleanest city of India.

In 2021, Chandigarh fell 66 positions in the list of cleanest cities in India. The garbage piled up at the Dadu Majra garbage dump site.{{cite news|date=15 July 2021|title=Dadu Majra dump in Chandigarh poses a threat to lives of 50,000 citizens: PIL in Punjab and Haryana HC|work=The Indian Express|url=https://indianexpress.com/article/cities/chandigarh/dadu-majra-dump-in-chandigarh-poses-a-threat-to-lives-citizens-pil-in-punjab-and-haryana-hc-7405672/|access-date=28 December 2021}} The city's cleanliness was once a point for the city, and its decline became an important poll issue.

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Chandigarh has been rated as one of the "Wealthiest Towns" of India.Chandigarh has been rated as the "Wealthiest Town" of India.http://chandigarh.gov.in/knowchd_redfinechd.htm The Reserve Bank of India ranked Chandigarh as the third-largest deposit centre and seventh-largest credit centre nationwide as of June 2012. With an average household monthly income of {{INRConvert|199000|}}, Chandigarh is one of the richest towns in India.{{cite web|url=http://www.ibnlive.com/news/chandigarhs-the-richest-of-em-all/12571-3.html|title=Chandigarh's the richest of 'em all|publisher=CNN-IBN|access-date=12 March 2015|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080924231235/http://www.ibnlive.com/news/chandigarhs-the-richest-of-em-all/12571-3.html|archive-date=24 September 2008}} Chandigarh's gross state domestic product for 2014–15 is estimated at {{INRConvert|290|b|year=2015}} at current prices. According to a 2014 survey, Chandigarh is ranked 4th in the top 50 cities identified globally as "emerging outsourcing and IT services destinations".{{cite web|url=http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/2007/10/03/stories/2007100351450400.htm|title=6 Indian cities among emerging outsourcing hubs|work=Business Line|access-date=12 March 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110106153208/http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/2007/10/03/stories/2007100351450400.htm|archive-date=6 January 2011|url-status=dead}}

The Rajiv Gandhi Chandigarh Technology Park, also known as the Chandigarh IT Park, is a special economic zone which has facilities for information technology.{{Cite web|last=Administration|first=Chandigarh|title=RAJIV GANDHI CHANDIGARH TECHNOLOGY PARK|url=https://www.chdit.gov.in/rgctp}}

Technology Park, which has changed the economic scenario of the city and the vicinity by facilitating the growth of the economy, especially in the Services sector.

The government is a major employer in Chandigarh, with three governments having their base here, those being the Chandigarh Administration, the Punjab government, and the Haryana government. A significant percentage of Chandigarh's population, therefore, consists of people who are either working for one of these governments or have retired from government service, mainly armed forces. For this reason, Chandigarh is often called a "Pensioner's Paradise".{{cite web|url=https://www.facebook.com/IASOURDREAM/posts/327185860650096|title=IAS OUR DREAM – Chandigarh is often called a "Pensioner's...|via=Facebook|access-date=12 March 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151017085022/https://www.facebook.com/IASOURDREAM/posts/327185860650096|archive-date=17 October 2015|url-status=live}}{{Primary source inline|date=September 2024}} Ordnance Cable Factory of the Ordnance Factories Board has been set up by the Government of India. There are about 15 medium-to-large industries, including two in the public sector. In addition, Chandigarh has over 2,500 units registered under the small-scale sector. {{citation needed|date=August 2023}} The city's important industries are paper manufacturing, basic metals and alloys, and machinery. Other industries in the city are food products, sanitary ware, auto parts, machine tools, pharmaceuticals, and electrical appliances.{{citation needed|date=August 2023}}

The main occupation here is trade and business.{{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20141223091428/http://www.discoveredindia.com/chandigarh/chandigarh-the-fort-of-chandi/people.htm Occupation in Chandigarh]}}. The people of Chandigarh and their occupation.[http://www.bharatonline.com/chandigarh/culture/people.html Chandigarh people, culture and occupation] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141223092736/http://www.bharatonline.com/chandigarh/culture/people.html |date=23 December 2014 }}. The culture and people of Chandigarh. However, the Punjab and Haryana High Court, Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER), the availability of an IT Park, and more than a hundred government schools provide other job opportunities to people.

Four major trade promotion organisations have their offices in Chandigarh. These are The Associated Chambers of Commerce & Industry, ASSOCHAM India,The Associated Chambers of Commerce & Industry, ASSOCHAM India Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce & Industry, (FICCI) the PhD Chamber of Commerce and Industry and the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) having regional offices in Chandigarh.[http://www.cii.in/Regionpage.aspx?enc=eGTdm5V5nAehji8uvc8r9/JOHwrfX+fmCQ6xKZRBJcwNfHPk1Y9MV9guXPcPQiwD CII (NR) headquarters are at Chandigarh] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150210003631/http://www.cii.in/Regionpage.aspx?enc=eGTdm5V5nAehji8uvc8r9%2FJOHwrfX+fmCQ6xKZRBJcwNfHPk1Y9MV9guXPcPQiwD |date=10 February 2015 }}. (Confederation of Indian Industry) The headquarters of CII North Region are at Chandigarh.[http://www.cii.in/PhotoGalleryDetail.aspx?enc=aF7Ur01v+lR+C3X7MEd6q43EP4jDEa8VyWF7gZWJTEZTnhat3zcTk5sdSthQYEraUBk12qf6dekhGj3QR5WYiGwaexJkILWGl7uUYya3Uhx+t3qymrqpLVQiYHjQTnL0vehBPvqeM8P9mAdCrMscGg== Confederation of Indian Industry] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150403153417/http://www.cii.in/PhotoGalleryDetail.aspx?enc=aF7Ur01v+lR+C3X7MEd6q43EP4jDEa8VyWF7gZWJTEZTnhat3zcTk5sdSthQYEraUBk12qf6dekhGj3QR5WYiGwaexJkILWGl7uUYya3Uhx+t3qymrqpLVQiYHjQTnL0vehBPvqeM8P9mAdCrMscGg== |date=3 April 2015 }}. The Headquarters of CII (NR) is in Chandigarh.

Chandigarh IT Park (also known as Rajiv Gandhi Chandigarh Technology Park) is the city's attempt to break into the information technology world. Chandigarh's infrastructure, proximity to Delhi, Haryana, Punjab, and Himachal Pradesh, and the IT talent pool attract IT businesses looking for office space in the area. Major Indian firms and multinational corporations like Quark, Infosys, EVRY, TechMahindra, Airtel, Amadeus IT Group, DLF have set up base in the city and its suburbs.

The work of the Chandigarh Metro was slated to start by 2019. It was opposed by the Member of Parliament from Chandigarh, Kirron Kher.{{cite web|url=http://www.tribuneindia.com/2014/20140701/cth1.htm|title=Metro not feasible for city: MP|work=The Tribune|access-date=25 March 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140909122950/http://www.tribuneindia.com/2014/20140701/cth1.htm|archive-date=9 September 2014|url-status=live}} With an estimated cost of around {{INR}}109 billion including 50% funds from the governments of Punjab and Haryana and 25% from Chandigarh and government of India, funds from the Japanese government were proposed to include approximately 56% of the cost.{{cite web|author=Ajay Deep|date=15 October 2014|title=Chandigarh Metro Project Cost and Other Details|url=https://www.ultimate-tech-news.com/chandigarh-metro-project-cost-and-other-details/|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150315002632/http://chandigarhmetro.com/chandigarh-metro-project-cost-and-other-details/|archive-date=15 March 2015|access-date=12 March 2015|work=Chandigarh Metro}}{{cite web|url=http://chandigarhmetro.com/|title=Chandigarh Metro – Know what's happening in Chandigarh|work=Chandigarh Metro|access-date=12 March 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150314191657/http://chandigarhmetro.com/|archive-date=14 March 2015|url-status=live}} However, the project was turned down owing to its non-feasibility. Kher promised a film city for Chandigarh. After winning the seat, she said that she had difficulty in acquiring land in Chandigarh.{{cite news|url=http://www.business-standard.com/article/pti-stories/trying-to-get-film-city-for-chandigarh-soon-kirron-kher-114082500941_1.html|title=Trying to get Film City for Chandigarh soon: Kirron Kher|agency=Press Trust of India|date=25 August 2014|work=Business Standard|access-date=12 March 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141113120346/http://www.business-standard.com/article/pti-stories/trying-to-get-film-city-for-chandigarh-soon-kirron-kher-114082500941_1.html|archive-date=13 November 2014|url-status=live}} Her proposal was accepted by the Chandigarh Administration and the film city is proposed to be set up in Sarangpur, Chandigarh.{{cite web|url=http://chandigarh.gov.in/admn_new_init_filmcity.htm|title=Official Website of Chandigarh Administration|work=chandigarh.gov.in|access-date=12 March 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141112185824/http://chandigarh.gov.in/admn_new_init_filmcity.htm|archive-date=12 November 2014|url-status=live}} This has been considered as a source of employment in the future.

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Every year, in September or October during the festival of Navratri, many associations and organisations hold a Ramlila event, which has been conducted here for over 50 years.{{cite news|title=60 venues to stage Ramlila in Chandigarh this year|url=http://www.hindustantimes.com/punjab/60-venues-to-stage-ramlila-in-chandigarh-this-year/story-6lnNgj7qpZu5MvCLHBGCxJ.html|access-date=19 September 2017|work=Hindustan Times|agency=HT Media|publisher=HT Correspondents|date=1 October 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171204171121/http://www.hindustantimes.com/punjab/60-venues-to-stage-ramlila-in-chandigarh-this-year/story-6lnNgj7qpZu5MvCLHBGCxJ.html|archive-date=4 December 2017|url-status=live}}

The Rose Festival in Zakir Hussain Rose Garden every February shows thousands of subspecies of roses.{{cite web|title=ROSE GARDEN|url=http://chandigarhtourism.gov.in/Chandigarh%20Tourism%20-%20places%20to%20see-rose_garden.htm|website=chandigarhtourism.gov.in|publisher=Chandigarh govt|access-date=11 December 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150518003155/http://chandigarhtourism.gov.in/Chandigarh%20Tourism%20-%20places%20to%20see-rose_garden.htm|archive-date=18 May 2015|url-status=live}}

Chandigarh Carnival is an annual mega tourism event of Chandigarh Administration which is held in the last week of November every year.As a part of event, the department organises various fun and flora activities including setting up of amusement park, stalls, day cultural programmes etc.{{Cite web|title=Chandigarh Carnival|url=https://utsav.gov.in/view-event/chandigarh-carnival-1|access-date=20 May 2024|website=utsav.gov.in}}

The Mango Festival is held during the monsoons, and other festivals are held at Sukhna Lake.

Punjabi historic festivals like Lohri, Basant, Vaisakhi are also celebrated with great fervor and enthusiasm across the city.{{Cite web|title=Baisakhi Festival in Chandigarh|url=https://www.india.com/travel/chandigarh/things-to-do/events-baisakhi-festival-in-chandigarh/|website=India.com}}

Unified Transport Metropolitan Authority, Chandigarh was made in 2023 to plan and execute the transportation needs of the Chandigarh Metropolitan Region.{{cite web|url=https://www.hindustantimes.com/cities/chandigarh-news/unified-metropolitan-transport-authority-for-tricity-constituted-under-national-urban-transport-policy-umta-tricity-transportation-101682723268881-amp.html|title=Chandigarh: 23-member unified metropolitan transport body formed|work=Hindustan Times |date=29 April 2023}}

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Chandigarh has the largest number of vehicles per capita in India.{{cite web|url=http://www.mapsofindia.com/top-ten-cities-of-india/top-ten-highest-no-of-car-ownership.html|title=Top Ten Towns with Highest Number of Car Ownership in India|work=mapsofindia.com|access-date=12 March 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150224203357/http://www.mapsofindia.com/top-ten-cities-of-india/top-ten-highest-no-of-car-ownership.html|archive-date=24 February 2015|url-status=live}} Wide, well-maintained roads and parking spaces all over the city ease local transport.{{cite web|url=http://www.mapsofindia.com/chandigarh/|title=Chandigarh city guide, information, history, weather, geographic statistics|work=citcochandigarh.com|access-date=12 March 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150310002937/http://www.mapsofindia.com/chandigarh/|archive-date=10 March 2015|url-status=live}} The Chandigarh Transport Undertaking (CTU) operates public transport buses from its Inter State Bus Terminals (ISBT) in Sectors 17 and 43 of the city.{{cite web|url=http://chdctu.gov.in/ISBT.aspx|title=Chandigarh Transport Undertaking|access-date=21 March 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150318001913/http://chdctu.gov.in/ISBT.aspx|archive-date=18 March 2015|url-status=live}} CTU also operates frequent bus services to the neighbouring states of Punjab, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, and to Delhi.

Chandigarh is well-connected by road to the following nearby cities, by the following highway routes:

• 25px NH 7 to Patiala in the southwest.
• 25px NH 152 to Ambala and Kaithal in the south (NH 44 catches up from Ambala to Panipat-Delhi).
• 25px NH 5 to Shimla in the northeast, and to Ludhiana in the west.

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Chandigarh Airport has scheduled commercial flights to the major cities of India. An international terminal was completed in 2015, and international flight routes to Dubai and Sharjah were started. The runway is located in Chandigarh, while the terminal is in Mohali. The governments of Punjab and Haryana each have a 24.5% stake in the international terminal building, while the Airports Authority of India holds a 51% stake.{{cite news|title=PM inaugurates new terminal at Chandigarh airport|url=https://www.tribuneindia.com/news/archive/chandigarh/pm-inaugurates-new-terminal-at-chandigarh-airport-131730|access-date=7 June 2022|work=The Tribune|date=11 September 2015}}

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Chandigarh Junction railway station lies in the Northern Railway zone of the Indian Railways network and provides connectivity to most of the regions of India. The railway station also serves the neighbouring town of Panchkula. There were long-standing proposals to develop a metro rail system in the city, which were formally scrapped in 2017.{{citation needed|date=January 2024}}

{{See also|List of educational institutions in Chandigarh}}

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There are numerous educational institutions in Chandigarh. These range from privately and publicly operated schools to colleges. These include Panjab University, Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER), Punjab Engineering College, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, National Institute of Technical Teacher Training

and Research (NITTTR), Post Graduate Government College, and DAV College.

According to the Chandigarh administration's department of education, there are a total of 115 government schools in Chandigarh,{{Cite web|url=http://chdeducation.gov.in/?q=node/4|title=Government Schools {{!}} Department of Education Chandigarh Administration|website=chdeducation.gov.in|access-date=20 February 2020}} including Government Model Senior Secondary School, Sector 16, Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya, Bhavan Vidyalaya,{{cite news|title=Chandigarh: 4-day conference for principals by Bhavan Vidyalaya concludes|url=https://www.hindustantimes.com/cities/chandigarh-news/chandigarh-4-day-conference-for-principals-by-bhavan-vidyalaya-concludes-101701023589794.html|work=Hindustan Times|date=27 November 2023|access-date=8 February 2024}} convent schools like St. Anne's Convent School, St. John's High School, Chandigarh, Sacred Heart Senior Secondary School{{cite news|title=Sacred Heart Senior Secondary School, Chandigarh|url=https://www.tribuneindia.com/news/schools/sacred-heart-senior-secondary-school-chandigarh-564475|work=The Tribune|date=21 November 2023|access-date=8 February 2024}} and Carmel Convent School, and other private schools like Delhi Public School{{cite news|title=School notes: Delhi Public School, Chandigarh|url=https://www.tribuneindia.com/news/chandigarh/school-notes-delhi-public-school-chandigarh-586219|work=The Tribune|date=1 February 2024|access-date=8 February 2024}} and D.A.V. Public School.{{cite news|title=DAV Public School, Sec 8-C, Chandigarh|url=https://www.tribuneindia.com/news/schools/dav-public-school-sec-8-c-chandigarh-588675|work=The Tribune|date=8 February 2024|access-date=8 February 2024}}

Chandigarh has also emerged as a significant hub for IAS coaching{{Cite web|date=6 July 2018|title=Chandigarh a New Destination For IAS Coaching|url=https://o2iasacademy.in/chandigarh-a-new-destination-for-civil-service-preparation/|website=O2 IAS Academy}} centres in North India. With the ever-increasing popularity of civil services among the youth, the city has seen a proliferation of coaching institutes catering to UPSC aspirants. According to a survey conducted by O2 IAS Academy, many students from neighbouring states like Himachal Pradesh, Haryana, Punjab, and Union territory of Jammu and Kashmir prefer Chandigarh over Delhi for their IAS preparation due to its superior living conditions, access to educational resources, and quality teaching. Local Educational Institutes have contributed to the growing prominence of Chandigarh as a centre for civil services preparation.

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The Sector 16 Stadium has been a venue of several international cricket matches, but it has lost prominence after the PCA Stadium was constructed in Mohali. It still provides a platform for cricketers in this region to practise and play inter-state matches.{{cite web|url=http://www.espncricinfo.com/india/content/ground/57993.html|title=Sector 16 Stadium – India – Cricket Grounds|publisher=ESPNcricinfo|access-date=12 March 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150505162049/http://www.espncricinfo.com/india/content/ground/57993.html|archive-date=5 May 2015|url-status=live}}

The Chandigarh Golf Club has a 7,202-yard, 18-hole course known for its challenging narrow fairways, dogleg 7th hole, and floodlighting on the first nine holes.{{cite web|url=http://chandigarhgolfclub.golfgaga.com/|title=Chandigarh Golf Club (CGC) – Golf in Punjab – Haryana golf – North India Golf – Golfgaga – Where golfers meet! – Jeev Milka Singh Home Course – India's Top golfers – Golf courses in India|work=golfgaga.com|access-date=12 March 2015|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150325062852/http://chandigarhgolfclub.golfgaga.com/|archive-date=25 March 2015}}

The main tourist attractions in Chandigarh are:{{Cite web|url=https://chandigarhdistrict.nic.in/tourist-places/|title=Chandigarh (UT) – Tourist Places|website=chandigarhdistrict.nic.in|access-date=16 March 2022}}

• Rock Garden of Chandigarh
• Garden of Springs, Chandigarh
• Zakir Hussain Rose Garden
• Japanese Garden, Chandigarh
• Parrot Bird Sanctuary, Chandigarh
• Mahendra Chaudhary Zoological Park
• Sukhna Lake
• Sukhna Wildlife Sanctuary
• Rose Festival (Chandigarh)
• Heritage Trees of Chandigarh
• Sukhna Interpretation Centre
• Terraced Garden
• Leisure Valley, Chandigarh

• Government Museum and Art Gallery, Chandigarh
• Gandhi Bhawan, Chandigarh
• Open Hand Monument

• Open Hand Monument
• Palace of Assembly, Chandigarh
• Chandigarh Capitol Complex
• Secretariat Building, Chandigarh

• Sector-17, Chandigarh
• Burail Fort
• Manimajra Fort
• Chandi Mandir
• Elante Mall
• Paras Downtown Square
• Tagore Theatre

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File:Rose Garden Chandigarh.jpg|Rose Garden

File:Palace of Assembly Chandigarh.jpg|Palace of Assembly, Capitol Complex

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Nehru said of Chandigarh when he first visited the site of the new city in 1952: "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".{{cite web|url=http://www.blogs.wsj.com/indiarealtime/2013/08/17/chandigarh-exhibited-in-new-york/|title=Chandigarh Exhibited in New York|work=The Wall Street Journal|access-date=7 April 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170101025024/http://blogs.wsj.com/indiarealtime/2013/08/17/chandigarh-exhibited-in-new-york/|archive-date=1 January 2017|url-status=dead}} For Nehru, Chandigarh represented a vision of how a new planned city could be a canvas for the regeneration of the nation itself after centuries of British colonial rule and the dilution of Indian character from the nation's towns. Guided by the architectural optics of Le Corbusier, the development of Chandigarh was part of a state-driven exercise to break from the traditions of imperialism in urban planning and begin the process of healing from the injustices suffered.{{cite book|last=Kalia|first=Ravi|date=1990|title=Chandigarh: The making of an Indian city|location=New Delhi|publisher=Oxford University Press|page=5|isbn=978-0-195-65030-3}}

To the extent that Chandigarh epitomises the legacy of British rule, in the impetus of its creation as a solution to the partitioning of territory between India and Pakistan, the city represents an early ideological symbol for the birth of India's future. The selection of the physical site involved an extensive vetting process. Many existing towns in Punjab were surveyed as options for the new capital and dismissed for poor performance concerning factors such as military defensibility and capacity for accommodating potential refugee influxes. The construction of a new town in Chandigarh was determined to be the best option due to its relative strength in these factors as well as its proximity to the national capital, New Delhi, its central location within the state of Punjab, its abundance of fecund land and its beautiful natural landscape.{{cite web|url=http://chandigarh.gov.in/knowchd_gen_historical.htm|title=Historical Background|work=Government of Chandigarh|access-date=7 April 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110519173408/http://http/|archive-date=19 May 2011|url-status=dead}}

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Off the back of this conflation of assets Chandigarh then was well poised to serve a function as a city-building project in national identity. From a federal policy perspective, the development of the new town became a tool in India for modernisation and an intended driver of economic activity, legal reform, and regional growth as well as a significant agent for the decolonisation project.{{cite book|last=Kalia|first=Ravi|date=2004|title=Gandhinagar: Building National Identity in Postcolonial India|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RVhNO2MwOCAC&q=postcolonial+chandigarh&pg=PR9|location=Columbia|publisher=Univ of South Carolina Pres|page=2|isbn=978-1-570-03544-9}} As Britain's grip on their empire began to weaken their accelerated withdrawal between the beginning of the second world war and 1947 left their former colony in states of disarray and disorganisation, and policymakers for the new Indian government were required to contend with issues such as rapid rural depopulation, urban congestion, and poverty. As well as in Chandigarh this policy tool was implemented in the creation of new capital cities in Bhubaneswar and Gandhinagar, and more broadly throughout India in the 112 planned cities created between independence and 1971, purposed to absorb migration from those regions in demise due to the end of British rule and provide hubs for growing industries such as in steel and energy.{{cite report|author=K. C. Sivaramakrishnan|date=1976–1977|title=New Towns in India: A Report on a Study of Selected New Towns in the Eastern region|url=http://www.cprindia.org/sites/default/files/books/NEW%20TOWNS%20IN%20INDIA_1.pdf|publisher=Indian Institute of Management Calcutta|page=4|access-date=12 April 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180516132444/http://www.cprindia.org/sites/default/files/books/NEW%20TOWNS%20IN%20INDIA_1.pdf|archive-date=16 May 2018|url-status=live}}

These examples from a genealogy of utopian urban forms developed in post-independence India as a panacea for issues related to underdevelopment as well as post-independence complications to do with separatist religious conflict and the resulting diplomatic tensions. Chandigarh is the first example of a state-funded master-planned modernisation scheme. These "urban utopias" attempt to enforce nation-building policies through a federalised rule of law at a regional level, and diffuse postcolonial urbanism which codes justice in its design.{{cite journal|last1=Datta|first1=Ayona|s2cid=54070842|title=New urban utopias of postcolonial India: 'Entrepreneurial urbanization' in Dholera smart city, Gujarat|journal=Dialogues in Human Geography|volume=5|issue=1|pages=4|doi=10.1177/2043820614565748|url=http://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/83074/3/__ds.leeds.ac.uk_staff_staff15_libmh_SCoReS_Repository_Datta_paper_sympletic%5B1%5D.pdf}} The intent is that the economic success and progressivism of cities such as Chandigarh as a lightning rod for social change would gradually be emulated at the scale of the nation. Chandigarh was for Nehru and Le Corbusier an embodiment of the egalitarian potential offered by modernism, where the machine age would complete the liberation of the nation's citizens through the productive capacity of industrial technology and the relative ease of constructing civic facilities such as dams, hospitals, and schools; the very antithesis of the conservative and traditional legacy of colonialism. Though built as a state capital Chandigarh came to be focused on industry and higher education. The specialisation of these new towns in particular functions represents a crucial aspect of the modernisation process as a decolonising enterprise, in completing a national portfolio where each town forms a part of the utopian model for contemporary India.

The post-colonialism of Chandigarh is rooted in the transformation of the political ideas of those such as Nehru who generated a new Indian nationalism through the design of newly built forms.{{cite journal|last1=Shaw|first1=Annapurna|s2cid=145266110|title=Town Planning in Postcolonial India, 1947–1965: Chandigarh Re-Examined|journal=Urban Geography|volume=30|issue=8|pages=864–873|doi=10.2747/0272-3638.30.8.857|year=2009}} Scholars such as Edward Said have emphasised the sinister nature of nostalgia and the romanticisation of colonial architecture in newly independent colonies as artefacts that perpetuate the ideological legacy of the hegemony and replicate the hierarchy of power even after decolonisation.{{cite journal|last1=James-Chakraborty|first1=Kathleen|title=Beyond postcolonialism: New directions for the history of nonwestern architecture|journal=Frontiers of Architectural Research|volume=3|issue=1|pages=2|doi=10.1016/j.foar.2013.10.001|year=2014|doi-access=free}} Insofar as modernism in architecture (which defined town planning under the Nehru era of rule) represents an active radical break from tradition and a colonial past even the very presence of Le Corbusier has been recognised as an indelible resistance to the British construction legacy, as he provided the first non-British influence on design thinking in India, enabling a generational shift in the contemporary cohort of architects and planners to be hired by the state throughout the rest of the century who were initiated under Modernist conditioning.

As early as the 1950s the presence of the International Style could be detected in the design of houses in India, "whether mistri or architect-designed".{{cite book|last1=Lang|first1=Jon|last2=Desai|first2=Madhavi|last3=Desai|first3=Miki|date=1997|title=Architecture and Independence: The Search for Identity—India 1880 to 1980|location=New York, NY|publisher=Oxford University Press, USA|page=213|isbn=978-0-195-63900-1}} The development of low-cost housing was a priority for Chandigarh, and the modern forms designed by Corbusier are characterised by a dispensing with colonial forms focused on classic aesthetics and a refocusing on strategies such as using narrow frontages and orientation for minimising direct exposure to the sun and maximising natural ventilation and efficient cost while providing modern amenities in the International Style aesthetic.{{cite journal|last1=Jackson|first1=Iain|s2cid=143917493|title=Maxwell Fry and Jane Drew's early housing and neighborhood planning in Sector-22, Chandigarh|journal=Planning Perspectives|volume=28|issue=1|pages=12|doi=10.1080/02665433.2013.734993|year=2013|bibcode=2013PlPer..28....1J}} These developments are credited as the beginning of a "Chandigarh architecture", inspiring gradual experimentation with form and an "Indianising" of the International Style which precipitated the formation of the country's new cultural identity in town design.

In 2024, Tropical Modernism: Architecture and Independence, an exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, featured designs for Chandigarh.{{cite web|url=https://www.vam.ac.uk/exhibitions/tropical-modernism-architecture-and-independence|title=V&A South Kensington – Tropical Modernism: Architecture and Independence|year=2024|website=Victoria and Albert Museum|access-date=1 May 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240430082749/https://www.vam.ac.uk/exhibitions/tropical-modernism-architecture-and-independence|archive-date=30 April 2024|quote=Tropical Modernism was an architectural style developed in the hot, humid conditions of West Africa in the 1940s. After independence, India and Ghana adopted the style as a symbol of modernity and progressiveness, distinct from colonial culture.}}

Criticisms are well established regarding the implementation of the postcolonial vision of Nehru and Le Corbusier and the critical emphasis on its influence. Claims have been made that the focus on Corbusier's architect-centred discourse erases the plural authorship of the narrative of Chandigarh's development, arguing that it was, in fact, a hybridity of values and of "contested modernities" of Western and indigenous Indian origin and cultural exchanges rather than an uncontested administrative enterprise.{{cite journal|last1=Perera|first1=Nihal|s2cid=220332059|title=Contesting visions: hybridity, liminality, and authorship of the Chandigarh plan|journal=Planning Perspectives|volume=19|issue=2|pages=178|doi=10.1080/0266543042000192466|year=2004|bibcode=2004PlPer..19..175P}} Such criticism is consistent with claims that decolonisation in India has marked a shift from segregation based on race to segregation based on class and that planned cities are truly "designed" ones which represent the values and interests of a westernised middle-class Indian elite which ignore the complexities of India's diverse ethnic and cultural landscape and enabled neocolonial hierarchies such as the imposition of the Hindi language on non-conforming castes.

Brent C. Brolin argues that Le Corbusier ignored Indian preferences in designing the housing and communities and that the residents have done what they can to recreate their accustomed lifestyle.{{cite book|last1=Brolin|first1=Brent C.|date=1976|title=The Failure of Modern Architecture|location=London, England|publisher=Studio Vista|isbn=0289707536}} Furthermore, the early over-saturation of the minimalist International Style in building design in Chandigarh has attracted criticisms of effecting a "democratic, self-effacing banality", though this criticism is perhaps negligent of how this was necessary for galvanising higher standards of urban living throughout the country.{{cite book|last1=Bhatt|first1=Vikram|last2=Scriver|first2=Peter|date=1990|title=Contemporary Indian Architecture: After the Masters.|location=Ahmedabad, India|publisher=Mapin|page=15|isbn=978-0-944-14219-6}}

{{See also|Category:People from Chandigarh}}

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• Peepal Baba, environmentalist
• Sarbjit Bahga, architect, author, photo-artist
• Binny Bansal, founder of Flipkart, billionaire{{cite news|url=http://www.dnaindia.com/money/report-mukesh-ambani-india-s-richest-for-9th-year-flipkart-s-bansals-new-entrants-2128160|title=Mukesh Ambani India's richest for 9th year; Flipkart's Bansals new entrants|work=DNA|date=24 September 2015|access-date=16 October 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151004221549/http://www.dnaindia.com/money/report-mukesh-ambani-india-s-richest-for-9th-year-flipkart-s-bansals-new-entrants-2128160|archive-date=4 October 2015|url-status=live}}
• Sachin Bansal, founder of Flipkart, billionaire{{cite news|url=http://articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com/2014-03-10/news/48083953_1_sachin-bansal-flipkart-amod-malviya|title=From Rs 10,000 to $1-bn: The journey of Sachin & Binny Bansal's Flipkart|work=The Economic Times|access-date=12 March 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150403042518/http://articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com/2014-03-10/news/48083953_1_sachin-bansal-flipkart-amod-malviya|archive-date=3 April 2015|url-status=dead}}
• Neerja Bhanot, youngest Ashoka Chakra Awardee, flight attendant and model
• Sabeer Bhatia, Indian-American entrepreneur who founded Hotmail{{cite web|url=http://www.iammadeinindia.com/?p=1103|title=Sabeer Bhatia – "The HotMale behind Hotmail"|work=iammadeinindia.com|access-date=12 March 2015|url-status=usurped|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150311082237/http://www.iammadeinindia.com/?p=1103|archive-date=11 March 2015}}
• Jaspal Bhatti, Padma Bhushan awardee, film and TV actor and renowned satirist
• Abhinav Bindra, Olympic gold medalist{{cite web|url=http://www.nilacharal.com/enter/celeb/abhinav_bindra.asp|title=Abhinav Bindra – Rifle shooter, picture, profile, info, and favourites|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150325053851/http://www.nilacharal.com/enter/celeb/abhinav_bindra.asp|archive-date=25 March 2015}}
• Nek Chand, Indian artist and creator of the Rock Garden of Chandigarh{{cite web|url=http://nekchand.com/about-foundation|title=About the Foundation|work=nekchand.com|access-date=12 March 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150217043701/http://nekchand.com/about-foundation|archive-date=17 February 2015|url-status=live}}
• Surveen Chawla, Punjabi film actress
• Gurleen Chopra, Punjabi actress{{cite web|url=http://celebrity.ind.in/gurleen-chopra-profile-and-biography/|title=Bollywood Celebrity|access-date=12 March 2015|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141214095943/http://celebrity.ind.in/gurleen-chopra-profile-and-biography/|archive-date=14 December 2014}}
• Vivek Dahiya, actor
• Harita Kaur Deol, pilot
• Kapil Dev, former Indian international cricketer{{cite web|url=http://www.indiaonlinepages.com/sports/cricket/cricketers/kapil-dev.html|title=Kapil Dev Profile|work=indiaonlinepages.com|access-date=12 March 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150217051214/http://www.indiaonlinepages.com/sports/cricket/cricketers/kapil-dev.html|archive-date=17 February 2015|url-status=live}}
• Ishaan Dhawan, TV actor
• Shagun Pandey, TV actor
• Harmeet Dhillon, American lawyer
• Mukesh Gautam, Punjabi film director
• Yami Gautam, Indian film actress
• Mahie Gill, Indian actress{{cite web|url=http://bollywooddhamaal.com/celebrities/actresses/mahi-gill/|title=Mahi Gill|work=Bollywood Dhamaal|access-date=12 March 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150505125425/http://bollywooddhamaal.com/celebrities/actresses/mahi-gill/|archive-date=5 May 2015|url-status=live}}
• Sandesh Jhingan, Indian international professional footballer
• Mamta Joshi, Sufi singer
• Gurbani Judge, MTV India VJ and actress
• AJ Kanwar, award-winning dermatologist, former professor and head, PGI, Chandigarh
• Kamla K. Kapur, Indian-American writer, poet, playwright
• Kirron Kher, Indian actress and theatre artist (also BJP M.P. from the city){{cite web|url=http://www.filmibeat.com/celebs/kiron-kher/biography.html|title=Kiron Kher|work=FilmiBeat|access-date=12 March 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141214102014/http://www.filmibeat.com/celebs/kiron-kher/biography.html|archive-date=14 December 2014|url-status=live}}
• Aparshakti Khurana, Indian film actor
• Ayushmann Khurrana, Indian film actor
• Rochak Kohli, music composer, singer, lyricist
• Sargun Mehta, Punjabi film actress
• Anjum Moudgil, Indian rifle Shooter
• Prince Narula, actor
• Ramesh Kumar Nibhoria, winner of Ashden Awards-UK{{cite web|url=http://dsir.csir.res.in/dnn/?TabId=423|title=DSIR > Programmes > Erstwhile Programmes > TePP – Technopreneur Promotion Programme > tepp|work=csir.res.in|access-date=12 March 2015|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://archive.today/20141214083430/http://dsir.csir.res.in/dnn/?TabId=423|archive-date=14 December 2014}}
• Gul Panag, Indian film actress and social activist{{cite web|url=http://www.filmibeat.com/celebs/gul-panag/biography.html|title=Gul Panag|work=FilmiBeat|access-date=12 March 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141214101938/http://www.filmibeat.com/celebs/gul-panag/biography.html|archive-date=14 December 2014|url-status=live}}
• Neel Kamal Puri novelist, columnist
• Gajendra Pal Singh Raghava, bioinformatics scientist{{cite web|url=http://www.biospectrumindia.com/biospecindia/features/174140/notable-bioinformatician-i-dr-gajendra-pal-singh-raghava-i|title=Notable bioinformatician – Dr Gajendra Pal Singh Raghava|work=biospectrumindia.com|access-date=12 March 2015|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150428064034/http://www.biospectrumindia.com/biospecindia/features/174140/notable-bioinformatician-i-dr-gajendra-pal-singh-raghava-i|archive-date=28 April 2015}}
• Kulraj Randhawa, Punjabi film actress{{cite news|url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/entertainment/punjabi/movies/news/Kulraj-Randhawa-works-with-Dharmendra-again/articleshow/25214903.cms|title=Kulraj Randhawa works with Dharmendra again|work=The Times of India|access-date=21 March 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151017085022/http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/entertainment/punjabi/movies/news/Kulraj-Randhawa-works-with-Dharmendra-again/articleshow/25214903.cms|archive-date=17 October 2015|url-status=live}}
• Mohinder Singh Randhawa, a civil servant who had a major role in establishing Chandigarh
• Harnaaz Sandhu, winner of Miss Universe 2021
• Mohit Sehgal, TV actor
• Piare Lal Sharma, writer
• Jeev Milkha Singh, professional golfer{{cite web|url=http://www.iloveindia.com/sports/golf/players/jeev-milkha-singh.html|title=Jeev Milkha Singh Profile|work=iloveindia.com|access-date=12 March 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150409015242/http://www.iloveindia.com/sports/golf/players/jeev-milkha-singh.html|archive-date=9 April 2015|url-status=live}}
• Milkha Singh Commonwealth gold medalist.{{cite news|url=http://photogallery.indiatimes.com/celebs/sports/milkha-singh-at-his-residence/Milkha-Singh/articleshow/7734571.cms|title=Milkha Singh at his residence|work=The Times of India|access-date=12 March 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150101233549/http://photogallery.indiatimes.com/celebs/sports/milkha-singh-at-his-residence/Milkha-Singh/articleshow/7734571.cms|archive-date=1 January 2015|url-status=live}}{{cite web|url=http://www.sikh-history.com/sikhhist/personalities/sports/milkha.html|title=Sikh Sports personality Flying Sikh Milkha Singh|author=Sandeep Singh Bajwa|work=sikh-history.com|access-date=12 March 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150225164938/http://www.sikh-history.com/sikhhist/personalities/sports/milkha.html|archive-date=25 February 2015|url-status=dead}}
• Yuvraj Singh, Indian international cricketer{{cite web|url=http://www.preservearticles.com/2011081710894/short-biography-of-cricketer-yuvraj-singh.html|title=Short Biography of cricketer Yuvraj Singh|author=Arjun|work=preservearticles.com|access-date=12 March 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141214101341/http://www.preservearticles.com/2011081710894/short-biography-of-cricketer-yuvraj-singh.html|archive-date=14 December 2014|url-status=live|date=17 August 2011}}
• Pammi Somal, Bollywood journalist and filmmaker
• Sri Srinivasan, United States Circuit Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit
• Manan Vohra, cricketer
• Hitendra Wadhwa, professor at Columbia Business School
• Kashmiri Lal Zakir, Indian poet, novelist, dramatist and short story writer.

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• Khuda Jassu{{cite web|url=http://chdruraldevelopment.gov.in/village.htm|title=Village Profile, Rural Development and Panchayat Department, Chandigarh Administration|access-date=20 April 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091213044534/http://chdruraldevelopment.gov.in/village.htm|archive-date=13 December 2009|url-status=dead}}

• Ambala–Chandigarh Expressway
• Emblem of Chandigarh
• Kaimbwala
• Mohali
• Navyug Ramlila and Dussehra Committee
• New Chandigarh, Punjab
• Panchkula
• Pinjore

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• Fynn, Shaun. Chandigarh Revealed: Le Corbusier's City Today. Princeton Architectural Press, 2017. {{ISBN|9781616895815}}
• Evenson, Norma. Chandigarh. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1966.
• Sarbjit Bahga, Surinder Bahga (2014) Le Corbusier and Pierre Jeanneret: The Indian Architecture, CreateSpace, {{ISBN|978-1495906251}}
• Joshi, Kiran. Documenting Chandigarh: The Indian Architecture of Pierre Jeanneret, Edwin Maxwell Fry and Jane Drew. Ahmedabad: Mapin Publishing in association with Chandigarh College of Architecture, 1999. {{ISBN|1-890206-13-X}}
• Kalia, Ravi. Chandigarh: The Making of an Indian City. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1999.
• Maxwell Fry and Jane Drew. Chandigarh and Planning Development in India, London: Journal of the Royal Society of Arts, No.4948, 1 April 1955, Vol. CIII pages 315–333. I. The Plan, by E. Maxwell Fry, II. Housing, by Jane B. Drew.
• Nangia, Ashish. Re-locating Modernism: Chandigarh, Le Corbusier and the Global Postcolonial. PhD. Dissertation, University of Washington, 2008.
• Perera, Nihal. "Contesting Visions: Hybridity, Liminality, and Authorship of the Chandigarh Plan" Planning Perspectives 19 (2004): 175–199
• Prakash, Vikramaditya. Chandigarh's Le Corbusier: The Struggle for Modernity in Postcolonial India. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2002.
• Sarin, Madhu. Urban Planning in the Third World: The Chandigarh Experience. London: Mansell Publishing, 1982.

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