Chandigarh, the fantasy city of India's first Prime Minister, Sh. Jawahar Lal Nehru, was arranged by the celebrated French planner Le Corbusier. Pleasantly situated at the foothills of Shivaliks, it is known as one of the best analyses in urban arranging and present day engineering in the twentieth century in India.
Chandigarh gets its name from the sanctuary of "Chandi Mandir" situated in the region of the site chose for the city. The divinity 'Chandi', the goddess of force and a post of "garh" laying past the sanctuary gave the city its name "Chandigarh-The City Beautiful".
The city has a pre-noteworthy past. The delicately slanting fields on which current Chandigarh exists, was in the antiquated past, a wide lake ringed by a swamp. The fossil stays found at the site demonstrate an extensive assortment of sea-going and land and water proficient life, which was bolstered by that environment. Around 8000 years prior the territory was likewise known to be a home to the Harappans.
Since the medieval through present day time, the region was a piece of the huge and prosperous Punjab Province which was isolated into East and West Punjab amid segment of the nation in 1947. The city was imagined not exclusively to serve as the capital of East Punjab, additionally to resettle a large number of displaced people who had been removed from West Punjab.
In March, 1948, the Government of Punjab, in discussion with the Government of India, affirmed the region of the foothills of the Shivaliks as the site for the new capital. The area of the city site was a part of the past Ambala locale according to the 1892-93 gazetteer of District Ambala. The establishment stone of the city was laid in 1952. Along these lines, at the season of revamping of the state on 01.11.1966 into Punjab, Haryana and Himachal Pardesh, the city accepted the remarkable qualification of being the capital city of both, Punjab and Haryana while it itself was pronounced as a Union Territory and under the immediate control of the Central Government.
Chandigarh gets its name from the sanctuary of "Chandi Mandir" situated in the region of the site chose for the city. The divinity 'Chandi', the goddess of force and a post of "garh" laying past the sanctuary gave the city its name "Chandigarh-The City Beautiful".
The city has a pre-noteworthy past. The delicately slanting fields on which current Chandigarh exists, was in the antiquated past, a wide lake ringed by a swamp. The fossil stays found at the site demonstrate an extensive assortment of sea-going and land and water proficient life, which was bolstered by that environment. Around 8000 years prior the territory was likewise known to be a home to the Harappans.
Since the medieval through present day time, the region was a piece of the huge and prosperous Punjab Province which was isolated into East and West Punjab amid segment of the nation in 1947. The city was imagined not exclusively to serve as the capital of East Punjab, additionally to resettle a large number of displaced people who had been removed from West Punjab.
In March, 1948, the Government of Punjab, in discussion with the Government of India, affirmed the region of the foothills of the Shivaliks as the site for the new capital. The area of the city site was a part of the past Ambala locale according to the 1892-93 gazetteer of District Ambala. The establishment stone of the city was laid in 1952. Along these lines, at the season of revamping of the state on 01.11.1966 into Punjab, Haryana and Himachal Pardesh, the city accepted the remarkable qualification of being the capital city of both, Punjab and Haryana while it itself was pronounced as a Union Territory and under the immediate control of the Central Government.
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