Chandigarh Capital Region

The vast majority of skilled workers in the private sector come from neighboring states like Himachal Pradesh, Punjab, and Haryana.

The Indian Ministry of Home Affairs asked the Chandigarh Administration in October 2011 to "coordinate with the Punjab and Haryana governments for working out the modalities" of a Regional Planning Board (RPB) for the Chandigarh Capital Region (CCR).

[4] However the final plan confined itself to the UT boundary, and did not mention the proposed "Chandigarh Capital Region".

Bhushan Steel also has a presence here.Panchkula IT Park is the state of art infrastructure to facilitate information technology in the city.

This area also houses the regional office (usually covering Punjab, Northern Haryana, Himachal Pradesh and Jammu and Kashmir) for a lot of FMCG companies.