[1] The Lal Chowk precinct stretches on both the sides of the Residency Road between the Amira Kadal bridge and the Tyndale Biscoe School.

Recently in 2024 it was completely reconstructed under Srinagar Smart City Project and walkway and area for sitting was added to its surroundings.

Lal Chowk was the location where Jawaharlal Nehru, the first Prime Minister of India, unfurled the Indian national flag in 1948, shortly after the country gained independence from the British Empire.

[1] Following the Indo-Pakistani War of 1947–1948, Nehru stood in Lal Chowk and promised the Kashmiri people a chance to vote in a referendum whereby they would be able to choose their political future.

[11] The purpose of the march was to unite Indians on the Kashmir issue and challenge pro-Pakistan separatists by hoisting the flag of India atop the tower in Lal Chowk on 26 January 2011—India's Republic Day.

[14] All BJP members in the rally were subsequently arrested and kept in custody in the city of Jammu until the end of formalities on Republic Day.

The Bharat Jodo Yatra Completed of "30 January 2023" after unfurled National Tricolour by Rahul Gandhi in Sher-E-Kashmir Stadium,Srinagar.