Chandigarh started out with 3 major hospitals – the PGI in Sector 12, the General Hospital in Sector 16, and Medical College Hospital Sector 32. Recently, major health groups have built private hospitals in Chandigarh, such as Fortis in neighboring Mohali and Max Healthcare.

One of the unusual and popular features of Chandigarh is the Rock Garden of Chandigarh, built over 30 years by Nek Chand, a former road supervisor, from items discarded during the construction of Chandigarh. Other popular tourist places are ‘The Rose Garden’ in Sector 16, and ‘Sukhana Lake’ in Sector 6. Sukhna Lake is an artificially created lake, extremely popular among the locals and tourists.

Chandigarh IT Park (also called Kishangarh IT Park) is the city’s attempt to break into the IT world. Chandigarh’s infrastructure, proximity to Delhi and Punjab, and the IT talent pool attracts IT businesses looking for office space in the area. Major Indian firms and multinational corporations including Dell, Infosys, Quark, Ranbaxy, Reliance and Satyam have offices in the park.

Chandigarh has to satellite cities located in Punjab and Haryana, built on the lines and design of Chandigarh. Panchkula (Haryana) and SAS Nagar or Mohali (Punjab) house a major population operating in Chandigarh.