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A check by Hindustan Times reveals that unlike the first wave of pandemic, when strict perimeter control was observed across containment zones, there is extreme laxity in enforcement this time. Share Via. By Munieshwer A Sagar , Chandigarh.

Get our Daily News Capsule Subscribe. Thank you for subscribing to our Daily News Capsule newsletter. Whatsapp Twitter Facebook Linkedin. Sign Up. Edit Profile. Chandigarh city is the capital of the territory and of the states of Haryana and Punjab. Area union territory, 44 square miles square km. History With the partition of India in , the old British province of Punjab was divided into two parts.

The larger western part, including the Punjabi capital of Lahore, went to Pakistan. The eastern part was granted to India, but it was without an administrative, commercial, or cultural centre. Consequently, plans to find a suitable site for the capital of the new Indian Punjab were undertaken soon after partition. It was hoped that a magnificent new state capital, scenically located at the foot of the Himalayas, would become a symbol of modernity, would heal the wounded pride of Indian Punjabis, and would house thousands of mostly Hindu and Sikh refugees who had fled from Muslim-dominated Pakistan.

Construction began in the early s, and most of the city was completed in the early s. The project ultimately required the relocation of some 21, people from 58 villages. The Chandigarh union territory was constituted on November 1, , when the Indian Punjab was reorganized along linguistic lines into two new states—predominantly Hindi-speaking Haryana and Punjabi-speaking Punjab. Straddled between Haryana and Punjab, the city of Chandigarh was made the shared capital of the two states and of the union territory itself.

Under the terms of the Punjab Accord, the entire union territory was to become part of Punjab, whereas the agriculturally productive, mostly Hindi-speaking areas of Fazilka and Abohar, both in Punjab, were to be transferred to Haryana; by the early 21st century, however, this plan had yet to come to fruition.

The contemporary city and territory The city of Chandigarh, with its well-developed infrastructure and relatively low population density, covers more than half of the union territory.