Chandigarh,
The City Beautiful
Chandigarh, The City
Beautiful, is magnetic and attracts people from all parts of the country and
the world. Chandigarh is well-planned city and is the capital of both states of
Punjab & Haryana. This is the prime
example of outstanding planning to design the city making it worth residing and
touring around. Carefully designed parks, streets and lined up trees across
streets creates a beautifule scene. In other words, it can be said that
Chandigarh city of creative people.
The open hand emblem
at Sukhna lake. It reads “Chandigarh, The City of Peace. Let’s strive
for-Community Harmony,Cultural Diversity, Rejection of Violence, Resolution of
Conflict, Reconciliation of Differences,
Freedom of Expression. The Chandigarh
has also an institute ‘The Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education
& Research (PGIMER)’ which was
inaugurated by Pt Jawahar Lal Nehru in 1962 and now this hospital named “Nehru Hospital” on 7th July 1963. The
Institute was originally under the Government of undivided Punjab. After the
reorganization of the state, the administrative control of the institute passed
on to the Union Territory of Chandigarh in November 1966. The Institute
became an autonomous body under the Act of Parliament in 1967 functioning under
the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India, with the
following mandate.
·
Provide high
quality patient care.
·
Attain
self-sufficiency in postgraduate medical education and to meet the country’s
need for highly qualified medical teachers in all medical and surgical fields.
·
Provide educational
facilities for the training of personnel in all-important branches of health
activity.
·
Undertake basic
community based research.
The people comes from the all parts of the country with the
hope of their better treatment.
Sukhna
Lake is al beautiful lake surrounded by mountains on one side. The moment we
enter here, a fleet of colourful boats in seen as if ducks are grown up enough
to give the visitors cool water ride`` An exciting view and memorable visit for
the crowd. The Panjab University, situated in sector 14 Chandigarh is one of
the renowned education centres of north as well as of India.
It
is the only city where huge numbers of gardens are build around. Derived its
name from Goddess Chandi, Chandigarh offers a good time to relax and visit
around. Chandigarh, offers some amazing locations for visitors to visit around
like. The Rock Garden of Chandigarh, Government Museum and Art Gallery,
Chandigarh Rose Garden, Garden of Fragrance, Chandigarh Botanical Garden &
Nature Park and many more such places.
. Besides
this, there are two historical religious places near the Chandigarh. These
places are Gurdwara Nada Sahib & Mansa Devi Mandir. Gurdwara Nada Sahib & Mansa Devi Mandir
are situated in Panchkula District of Haryana State, at a distance of few
kilometers from Chandigarh. Lacs of devotees visit these places daily, Sunday,
during navratras & fullmoon day (Poornmashi). On the basis of importance of
this city, the Akashvani Chandigarh has also produced a programme whose name is
‘Hello City Beautiful’, which became very popular programme.
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