Taxi Service in Chandigarh

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CHANDIGARH THROUGH SATELLITE
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QUICK FACTS

• Chandigarh, also called The City Beautiful, is a
  city in India that serves as the capital of two
  states, Punjab and Haryana, and is a union
  territory of India.
• Known internationally for its architecture and
  urban planning, It is the first planned city of
  India.
• The city tops the list of Indian States and Union
  Territories with the highest per capita income in
  the country at Rs 110,676 per year (Rs 44,502 in
  2000).
• After the partition of British India into the two
  nations of India and Pakistan in 1947, the region
  of Punjab was also split between India and
  Pakistan.
• After the partition of British India into the two
  nations of India and Pakistan in 1947, the region
  of Punjab was also split between India and
  Pakistan.
• The Indian state of Punjab required a new capital
  city to replace Lahore, which became part of
  Pakistan during the partition.
• Nehru famously proclaimed Chandigarh to be
  "unfettered by the traditions of the past, a
  symbol of the nation's faith in the future."

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Transport

• Chandigarh has the largest number of vehicles per
  capita.
• Public buses run by the Chandigarh Transport
  Undertaking (CTU), an undertaking of the
  Chandigarh Administration, provide local
  transport as well as inter-state transport
  services.
• Chandigarh is well connected by road. The two
  main National Highways (NH) connecting Chandigarh
  with the rest of the country are NH 22 (Ambala -
  Kalka - Shimla - Kinnaur) and NH 21 (Chandigarh -
  Leh).
• Chandigarh has a railway station located about
  10 km. away from the ISBT. Regular train
  connections are available to the national capital
  New Delhi and to some other junctions like Kalka,
  Ambala, Amritsar, Bhiwani, Lucknow, Patna,
  Howrah, Mumbai, Chennai, Trivandrum, and Sri
  Ganganagar.
• Chandigarh also has a domestic airport located
  nearly 12 kilometers from the ISBT. Its name is
  Chandigarh Airport. Jet Airways, JetLite,Air
  India, and Kingfisher Airlines operate regular
  flights from Chandigarh to New Delhi and Mumbai.

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TOURIST ATTRACTIONS
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Rock Garden

• The Rock Garden is a sculpture garden in
  Chandigarh, also known as Nek Chand's Rock
  Garden, after its founder, Nek Chand, a
  government official who started the garden
  secretly in his spare time in 1957.
• Today it is spread over an area of forty-acre
  (160,000 m²), it is completely built of
  industrial home waste and thrown-away items.
• The Rock Garden project was secretly initiated by
  Nek Chand around 1957. It was discovered by the
  authorities in 1975, by which time it had grown
  into a 12-acre (49,000 m2) complex of interlinked
  courtyards, each filled with hundreds of
  pottery-covered concrete sculptures of dancers,
  musicians, and animals.
• The Rock Garden is still made out of recycled
  materials. It is situated near Sukhna Lake. It
  consists of man-made interlinked waterfalls and
  many other sculptures that have been made of
  scrap other kinds of wastes (bottles, glasses,
  bangles, tiles, ceramic pots, sinks, electrical
  waste, etc) which are placed in walled paths

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Sukhna Lake

• Sukhna Lake in Chandigarh, India is an artificial
  lake at the foothills of the Shivalik hills.
• This 3 km² rainfed lake was created in 1958 by
  damming the Sukhna Choe, a seasonal stream coming
  down from the Shivalik Hills.
• Originally the seasonal flow entered the lake
  directly causing heavy siltation.
• To check the inflow of silt, 25.42 km² of land
  was acquired in the catchment area and put under
  vegetation. In 1974, the Choe was diverted and
  made to bypass the lake completely, the lake
  being fed by three siltation pots, minimising the
  entry of silt into the lake itself.

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The Yadavindra Gardens

• The Yadavindra Gardens at Pinjore have terraced
  gardens, which feature the Rajasthani Mughal
  style Shish Mahal, the Rang Mahal, the cubical
  Jal Mahal and a series of fountains and
  waterfalls.
• The gardens are open from 7am to 10pm and are
  illuminated at night.
• Pinjore Gardens (also known as Pinjor Gardens or
  Yadavindra Gardens) is an example of the Mughal
  Gardens style.
• The garden is in the village of Pinjore lie 22 km
  from Chandigarh on the Ambala-Shimla road.
• The Gardens were designed by the Nawab Fidal
  Khan. He was an architect and foster brother to
  Aurangzeb.

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