Chandigarh capital region

A map of Chandigarh, Mohali and Panchkula together.

Chandigarh Capital Region (CCR) or Greater Chandigarh is an area, which includes the union territory city of Chandigarh, and it's neighboring cities of Mohali, Zirakpur, Kharar, Kurali (in Punjab) and Panchkula (in Haryana). Chandigarh Administration, Greater Mohali Area Development Authority (GMADA) and HUDA Panchkula are different authorities responsible for development of this region.

The econonomy of the region is interdependent as the area is continuously inhibited, though falling under different states. There is lot of movement of people and goods daily to and from suburbs, like most of the pople working in Chandigarh live in suburb like Zirakpur. The local industry is on the outskirts like Derabassi, Lalru and Baddi.

History

The Government of India have given nod to the status of Chandigarh Capital Region (CCR) and formation of its Regional Planning Board (RPB) in January 2012.[1] The idea behind the move was to provide better and similar facilities to the residents of the region and better coordination between the working of all administrations of the towns in the region.[2]

In January 2013, the 'Master Plan 2031' was submitted to the UT administrator and finalised in 2015[3]

Greater Mohali Area Development Authority (GMADA) has planned master plans for Mohali, New Chandigarh, Zirakpur, Derabassi, Kharar, Banur, Ropar, Rajpura and Fathegarh Sahib. While HUDA Panchkula has planned master plans for Panchkula, Pinjore-Kalka Urban Complex and Panchkula Extn-2. Chandigarh Metro project is underway to connect all parts.

Cities

The cities, towns and areas that are part of Chandigarh Capital region and their population are:

Rank City Union territory / State Population (2011)[4]
1 Chandigarh Chandigarh 1,055,450
2 Panchkula Haryana 210,175
3 Mohali Punjab 176,152
4 Zirakpur Punjab 95,553
5 Kharar Punjab 74,460
6 Kurali Punjab 31,060

Industry

Chandigarh IT Park is a technology park located within Chandigarh, with presence of companies like Dell, Quark and Infosys. Dera Bassi - Lalru is another belt with mostly medium industry, this place has many spinning mills including the Nahar group. Bhushan Steel also has a presence here. Hindustan Machine Tools has a tractor factory in Pinjore, while Associated Cement Companies has a cement factory in Pinjore. Bharat Electronics Limited or B.E.L has a factory in Panchkula.

Punwire and Puncom have factories in Mohali as does Verka, and Ranbaxy and Godrej. This region is the zonal headquarters for a large number of banks, their offices are mainly in the "Bank Square" in sector 17 Chandigarh. This area also houses the regional office (usually covering Punjab, Northern Haryana, Himachal Pradesh and Jammu and Kashmir) for a lot of FMCG companies.

Educational Institutes of National Importance

Educational Institutes Others

References

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  2. ↑ "Decks cleared for Chandigarh Capital Region". The Times of India.
  3. ↑ "Chandigarh Capital Region included in Master Plan '31". The Times of India.
  4. ↑ "India: Major Agglomerations". .citypopulation.de. Retrieved 14 December 2014.

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