Tag: punjab

• The high-density region largely corresponds with the Northern plains. It extends from Punjab and Haryana in the west, to Brahmaputra valley in Assam in the east, in between crossing the plains of Uttar Pradesh, Bihar and West Bengal.
  
• High Density Districts (More than 400 persons per sq km):
  
• There are 254 districts in the country which have a density of more than 400 persons per sq km. These districts are found in three clusters. The first cluster spreads over large parts, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, West Bengal, adjoining districts of Haryana, Punjab and Delhi.
  

• Punjab spans three physiographic regions, the smallest being the Siwalik Range in the northeast, where elevations reach about 3,000 feet (900 metres).
  
• Farther south, the narrow, undulating foothill region is dissected by closely spaced seasonal torrents, locally known as chos, several of which terminate in the plain below without joining any stream. 
  
• There are large numbers of seasonal hill torrents which leave the Siwalik Range and enter the level plain.
  
• These torrents are swollen with water soon after heavy showers in the neighbouring hills and carry with them a heavy load of coarse sand and silt.
  
•  They are furious when rushing to the plains. 
  
• They are called ‘chos’ in the plain where their beds are broad, braided, shallow and sandy. 
  
• They are quite numerous and in some places every kilometre has a ‘chos’.
  

• Chandigarh  is a city and a union territory of India that serves as the capital of the Indian states of Punjab and Haryana. 
  
• As a union territory, the city is governed directly by the Union Government and is not part of either state.
  
• After India got its independence in 1947, the country had to divide the then Punjab into East Punjab(Pakistan) and West Punjab(India). The capital of Punjab before the Independence was Lahore.
  
• With the partition of India and Punjab, Lahore went to Pakistan.
  
• So, the Government of India under the leadership of Jawaharlal Nehru carved out a new city Chandigarh consisting of nearly 50 Pwadhi speaking villages of the then state of East Punjab India. Chandigarh was designed to be a model city and is still is considered one of the best planned cities in the world.
  
• In 1966, a new state Haryana was then formed from the eastern portion of Punjab. This was formed because the development of the then large portion of Punjab was getting difficult.
  
• After that, both states locked horns with each other as both of them vied the ownership of the city. It was then decided by the Central Government to make Chandigarh a Union Territory for ten years till the states came at a decision. Both states did not want to give away Chandigarh, so it was made the capital of both Punjab and Haryana.
  
• The ten years became more than forty years, and still Chandigarh is a UT and the capital of both the states. The conflict of interest has not been resolved and that is why Chandigarh is lucky to be a part of the Central Government as a Union Territory and Punjab and Haryana.
  

• Jalandhar district is a district in Doaba region of the state of Punjab in North-West Republic of India.
  
•  District headquarters is Jalandhar city. 
  
• Jalandhar is now chosen in the second list of smart city project and the corporation had been given 200 crores for initializing the project.Jalandhar provides goods like glass and furniture to neighbouring cities and is a hub of sports goods manufacture for international market.
  
• Apart from being Harbhajan Singh's hometown, Jalandhar is famous for its sports industry, whose products are used by the likes of Sachin Tendulkar, Saurav Ganguly, and Steve Waugh, among countless other cricket heroes.
  
• Since 90 per cent of the cricket equipment used all over the world is manufactured in India, with Jalandhar contributing nearly 30 to 35 per cent, it would not be far-fetched to say that Jalandhar figures every time a cricket match is played.
  

Sri Harmandir Sahib, also Sri Darbar Sahib and informally referred to as the "Golden Temple", is the holiest Gurdwara of Sikhism, located in the city of Amritsar, Punjab, India.
Amritsar was founded in 1577 by the fourth Sikh guru, Guru Ram Das.
The Golden Temple, Sri Harimandir Sahib is not only a central religious place of the Sikhs, but also a symbol of human brotherhood and equality.
The Golden Temple, located in the city of Amritsar in the state of Punjab,is a place of great beauty and sublime peacefulness.

B.  Haryana, Punjab, Bihar

It may be noted that agricultural prosperity does not depend as much as on the total net sown area as it does on the percentage of net sown area to the total reporting area. There are large variations in the proportion of net sown area to total reporting area from one state to another Punjab and Haryana had some of the highest proportions of 84.2 and 80.7 per cent respectively.

Large tracts of the Indo-Ganga plain in Punjab, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh and Bihar and in coastal regions have large percentage of area sown more than once.