Chandigarh Capital Region or Chandigarh Metropolitan Region is an area, which includes the union territory city of Chandigarh, and its neighboring cities of Mohali, Zirakpur, New Chandigarh and Panchkula. Chandigarh Administration, Greater Mohali Area Development Authority and Haryana Urban Development Authority are different authorities responsible for development of this region. The economy of the region is interdependent as the area is continuously inhabited, though falling under different states. There is lot of movement of people and goods daily to and from suburbs, like most of the people working in Chandigarh live in a suburb like Zirakpur. The local industry is on the outskirts like Derabassi, Lalru and Baddi.
History
The IndianMinistry of Home Affairs asked the Chandigarh Administration in October 2011 to "coordinate with the Punjab and Haryana governments for working out the modalities" of a Regional Planning Board for the Chandigarh Capital Region. The intention was to harmonize and improve facilities across the region and co-ordinate local administrations. Responsibilities of the RPB would include disaster management, health planning, biomedical waste and traffic management. The 'Master Plan 2031' submitted to the UT administrator in January 2013 included a proposal for a "inter-state regional plan for the Chandigarh Capital Region". However the final plan confined itself to the UT boundary, and did not mention the proposed "Chandigarh Capital Region". Instead, the plan expected responsibilities for the region to be coordinated between Punjab, Haryana and Chandigarh UT, and that the Chandigarh plan "with the GMADA Plan 2056 and the Haryana Development Plan should together arrive at a metropolitan plan". the Chandigarh capital region along the lines of the National Capital Region remains an un-implemented concept.
Definition
The cities, towns and areas that would be part of Chandigarh Capital region have a total population of 1,537,330 and their city wise population are:
Rank
City
Union territory / State
Population
1
Chandigarh
Chandigarh
1,055,450
2
Panchkula
Haryana
210,175
3
Mohali
Punjab
176,152
4
Zirakpur
Punjab
95,553
5
New Chandigarh
Punjab
Overall Chandigarh, Mohali District and Panchkula District are part of CCR Derabassi, Lalru, Banur, Kharar and Kurali in Mohali district. Kalka, Pinjore,Barwala and Raipur Rani in Panchkula district can be considered as another towns in Chandigarh Capital Region In future it can be expanded up to BBN Area in Himachal pradesh and Ropar City in Punjab.
Industry
is a technology park located within Chandigarh, with presence of companies like IDS Infotech, Airtel, Tech Mahindra and Infosys. Mohali IT City is the infrastructure to facilitate information technology in the city. It spreads over 1700 acres developed by GMADA situated near Chandigarh International Airport. Infosys is given 50 Acres land to develop state of art campus. Quark has 40 Acres campus in Mohali for Quark software Inc. and other IT Companies like Emerson and Infosys. Punwire,, Mahindra-Swaraj Tractors, Verka, Sun Pharma and Godrej also have Plants in Mohali 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. Panchkula IT Park is the state of art infrastructure to facilitate information technology in the city. It spreads over 74 acres developed by HSIIDC situated in sector 22. Bharat Electronics Limited or B.E.L has a factory in Panchkula. Hindustan Machine Tools has a tractor factory in Pinjore, while Associated Cement Companies has a cement factory in Pinjore. SML-ISUZU has Bus & Truck Plant near Ropar City. 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 for a lot of FMCG companies.
Educational Institutes
IIT Ropar
IISER Mohali
NIPER Mohali
ISB Mohali
INST Mohali
NABI Mohali
National Institute of Electronics & Information Technology,Ropar and Chandigarh
