The city was created in early fifties of twentieth century as a symbol of inspiration of free India. Over the last six decades it has grown into a city conglomerate of more than one million population thereby engulfing many good aspects of a city's growth but losing very heavily on almost all aspects associated with governance, policy making, planning and maintenance.
Chandigarh has problems associated with degradation of cleanliness and sanitation standards, water availability, road maintenance, traffic management, electric supply management, shortage of housing to name only a few. we should not be satisfied with the fact that Chandigarh is having best infrastructure and living quality index amongst the other Indian cities. Because other cities do not have even the basic environment and facilities that each citizen of the country is entitled to and are not even entitled to be called cities and towns according to the 20th century definition of a city or a town. Over the years we should have achieved some improvement rather than succumbing to the basic Indian syndrome of never maintaining what ever we create by spending scarce national wealth.
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