On August 15, 1947, on the eve of India’s independence from the United Kingdom, came a directive which would transform the subcontinent for the next six decades. In order to safeguard the ...

Says would like the councillors’ feedback before tabling it in the House on June 27; officials said the revamped project will ...

It was in 1997 that the first plan was prepared by a working group headed by MN Sharma, the first Indian chief architect of the city. It extended to the Chandigarh urban complex and included ...

Chandigarh is not just a modern city but also a place with a powerful past. The name comes from Chandi Mandir a temple dedicated to Goddess Chandi and holds deep mythological and cultural meaning It ...

Maloya has been included as the first village under the pilot project involving all 23 villages of the city under the development of villages plan being prepared by the Chandigarh administration ...

The UT administration has finally got going on building the city’s third commercial ... has finally initiated the work to implement the Chandigarh Master Plan – 2031 vision for creating ...

A piece in the Guardian suggests that Chandigarh, the city in the north of India planned ... which included almost wholly remaking an earlier master plan and designing three government buildings ...

“To my mind it was the greatest experiment in the contemporary history of planning and architecture,” he says of the city. “And this experiment of Chandigarh was where Le Corbusier put all ...

Soon you can soak in the greenery of City Beautiful while cycling or ... as part of the Chandigarh master plan 2031. The Rail India Technical and Economic Services (RITES) Limited, in its recently ...

The idea of Chandigarh makes it an aspirational destination for ... A creation of the feted Le Corbusier on the lines of classical Rome, the master plan of the tri-city was conceived as a living ...