March 30, 2012
Chandigarh
History
On attaining Independence from the British in August 1947,
India had to surrender quite a lot of its northern territories for formation of
Pakistan, Punjab was also split into two parts with Lahore its biggest city
going to Pakistan. Then a need to create a new capital for Punjab led to many
options but the most suitable one was creating a new modern city as the capital.
This proposal was selected by the then Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru. A Swiss
born French architect Le Corbusier was commissioned to design a new city
Chandigarh as the capital of Punjab. Later in the year 1966 Haryana state was
created from the eastern portions of Punjab. Chandigarh was at the border of
both Punjab and Haryana hence it was made a union territory and appointed as the
capital for both the states.
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