Social Life and Patterns in Chandigarh

Sector 17 is the city’s heart and retail centre. It is a favourite haunt for the city inhabitants for an evening out and has many restaurants and hotels. Sector 17 is also renowned for its many shops which carry a huge diversity of goods including most Indian and foreign brands. Another commercial hub is in Sector 34.

Chandigarh is known for its high literacy rate (97%). Its popular schools and colleges include St.John’s High School, St. Anne’s Convent School, St.Xavier’s, Sacred Heart Convent High School, Carmel Convent High School, New Public School,St. Kabir High School, St. Stephens High School, DAV School, Shiwalik Public School, Government College for Girls, Government College for Men, Home Science College for Girls, Guru Gobind Singh College, Government Teacher Training College (Chandigarh, India),Govt.

Teacher Training College, MCM College (Girls), SD College and DAV College. There are model schools set up by the government in various sectors, originally aimed to cater the needs of each sector. It is a major study hub for students all over Punjab, Harayana and Himachal Pradesh, and students from South-East Asia

Chandigarh also has outlets of worldwide chain restaurants like McDonalds, Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC), Pizza Hut, Dominos and Ruby Tuesday. Chandigarh has one multiplex, Fun Republic, which is 10Km from sector 17. Chandigarh has a number of movie theatres, viz. Batra (Sector 37), Kiran (Sector 22), Piccadilly (Sector 34), Nirman (Sector 32), Neelam (Sector 17), Jagat (Sector 17) and KC (Sector 17).

Chandigarh also houses many institutes of higher learning, such as the Punjab Engineering College, Chandigarh Engineering College, (Landran)[1] located just outside Chandigarh in Mohali, the Panjab University in sector 14, and the Postgraduate Institute of Medical Research.