[5] The Government of Punjab has initiated significant infrastructure and recreation projects in attempts to increase the standard of living in Mohali.

Due to the presence of the lake, fossil remains with imprints of a large variety of aquatic plant, animal, and amphibian life have been found.

As a part of the Punjab region, it has many rivers in the areas where it is speculated that ancient and primitive settlements by humans began.

[11] The Indian Punjab required a new capital city to replace Lahore, which became part of Pakistan during partition.

[12][13] Consequently, the government made Chandigarh from nearly 50 Puadhi speaking villages of the then state of East Punjab, India.

[14] Mohali was conceived after the trifurcation of Punjab and its capital Chandigarh became a Union Territory in the late 1960s.

It was rechristened to Ajitgarh by the union government in the year 2012, as it was felt at that time that the name, SAS Nagar, was too long.

With futuristic planning and due the location advantage, IT City Mohali is understandably the distinguished locality in Tricity.

[18] Sahibzada Ajit Singh Nagar has a sub-tropical continental monsoon climate characterised by a seasonal rhythm: hot summers, slightly cold winters, unreliable rainfall and great variation in temperature (−1 to 44 °C or 30 to 111 °F).

As per 2011 census, Mohali's urban agglomeration (metropolitan area) had a population of 176,152, out of which males were 92,407 and females were 83,745.

Chandigarh Transport Undertaking (CTU) provides bus connectivity with the rest of the tricity.

Mohali Railway Station is situated in Industrial Area, Phase 11 and connects the city with several important locations in the region such as Delhi, Ludhiana and Amritsar, as well as other parts of the country.

[21] Telecommunications service providers including Tata Communications, Vodafone and the Godrej Group operate within SAS Nagar.

SAS Nagar's role in facilitating multinational corporations is growing, with contributions from global tech giants such as Quark and Philips.

Denver-based Quark, Inc. has created a $500M, 46-acre (190,000 m2) QuarkCity in SAS Nagar, complete with a residential complex comprising 30% of the area; the shopping, entertainment, medical and educational districts consume another 10%.

[5] Mohali contributes greatly to sports within the Punjab region (most notably Minerva Academy), with 8 multipurpose sports complexes equipped football, field hockey, cricket, swimming, table tennis, athletics, volleyball, badminton, tennis, etc.

In 1990, the Punjab Cricket Association (PCA) unveiled a plan to build a state-of-the-art facility complete with a separate practice ground—to be built in a swampy area in the city.

The PCA invested heavily in the ground, a swimming pool, health club, tennis court, library, restaurant, and bar and outdoor & indoor cricket practice nets were incorporated into the plans.

The current pitch curator for the PCA Stadium is Daljit Singh and the design consultant is Ar.

The place also commemorates the meeting of Guru Har Rai with his famous Sikh Bhai Kuram, a Labana trader.

He, along with 500 Sikhs, attained martyrdom at this place in a battle against British forces during the Anglo-Sikh Wars.