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The Punjab Reorganisation Act was passed by the Indian Parliament on 18 September 1966, separating territory from the state of Punjab, most of which formed the new state of Haryana. Some was transferred to Himachal Pradesh , then a Union territory ; while Chandigarh , the capital of Punjab, was made a temporary Union territory to serve as the ...
Chandigarh (Punjabi: caṇḍīgaṛha pronounced [tʃəɲɖ̪iːɡəɽʰ]) is a city and union territory in northern India, serving as the shared capital of the states of Punjab and Haryana. Situated near the foothills of the Shivalik range of Himalayas , it borders Haryana to the east and Punjab in the remaining directions.
When Punjab was divided, both Punjab and Haryana claimed the new city for its capital. Pending resolution of the issue, the Central Government made Chandigarh a Union Territory (under Section 4 of the Punjab Re-organisation Act, 1966, with effect from 1 November 1966) with its administration functioning directly under the Central Government.
A mustard field in Haryana, near the state capital of Chandigarh. Haryana is a landlocked state in northern India. It is between 27°39' to 30°35' N latitude and between 74°28' and 77°36' E longitude. [71] The total geographical area of the state is 4.42 m ha, which is 1.4% of the geographical area of the country. [72]
Though the Union Government had decided to give Chandigarh to Punjab as solely its capital in 1970, per a formal communication issued by the Union government on 29 January 1970, and Haryana was granted five years and a proposed budget of 200 million rupees to set up its own capital, this has not been implemented, though Chandigarh had been ...
After the Punjab Reorganisation Act, 1966 separated the new state of Haryana from the state of Punjab, Chandigarh remained capital of both states and both legislative assemblies share the same campus. Today, many of the buildings in Chandigarh are considered modernist masterpieces, though most are in a state of neglect.
India is a federal constitutional republic governed under a parliamentary system consisting of 28 states and 8 union territories. [1] All states, as well as the union territories of Jammu and Kashmir, Puducherry and the National Capital Territory of Delhi, have elected legislatures and governments, both patterned on the Westminster model.
The retention of the planned city of Chandigarh as a union territory serving as capital for both Punjab and Haryana, [36] which had been promised exclusively to Punjab as its state capital in 1970, [70] also had long been a bone of contention between the federal government and the two states. [19]