Budget Estimates for 2008-09 - National Portal of India

Executive Summary
Union Territory, Chandigarh is one of the most architecturally planned city
in the country. It is the capital of both Punjab and Haryana States along with the status
of U.T in itself. The city plan was conceived by the famous French Architect Le
Corbusier. In fact, the modern Chandigarh is the creation of Le Corbusier. At present,
impact indicators are MMR of 57/lac, IMR of 19/1000 LB, and TFR 2.1 related to RCH in
Chandigarh. Our goal is to reduce MMR to less than 50/lac live births, IMR to less than
15/1000 live births, NMR to 11/1000 live births and TFR to be maintained at 2.1 by
2010. As per the Base Line Survey conducted by School of Public Health, Deptt.of
Community Medicine, PGIMER around 93% deliveries in urban area, 79% in rural and
32% in slums with an average of 60% are institutional and the goal is to increase it to
95% by the end of 11th Five Year Plan. 2010. Around 80% of deliveries are safe and
goal is to improve it to 100%. At present around 81% of pregnant women get 3 ANC
checkups, 91% get TT prophylaxis and only 83.4% got 100 tablets of IFA, goal is to
increase all these to 100%. Only half (56.5%) of mothers get post natal check ups. Goal
is again to attain 100% level. 80% of children are weighed within 2 days where as it is to
make it 100%. Only 68% of newborns got breast feeding on the same day whereas goal
is to gradually increase to 95% by 2010. The impact indicators for RCH II (IMR, MMR,
TFR, NMR) in Chandigarh are already at levels, which the entire nation is aspiring to
achieve by 2010. However, CPR is at lower levels for Chandigarh, whereas the goal is
to achieve it to 65% by 2010.
The city has been conceived as a living organism with close parallelism of
functions. The Administrative area in the north comprising of the Secretariat, High
Court and Assembly Chamber is the head, the Educational Centres in the north-east
are limbs, the Chief Commercial and Civic Centre is the heart where the residential
areas are analogous to the trunk of the organism. The network of roads and footpaths
through which the circulation of traffic and population takes place is circulatory system.
The spacious parks, green belts and other open spaces act as lungs of the city.
The basic planning unit of the city is a sector and initial plan provides for
47 sectors. Each sector spreads in an area of 246 acres and has been so planned that
all the facilities like shopping centres, schools, hospitals, places of worship, recreational
centres, play grounds, plenty of open spaces etc. are available in each sector for its
residents. The development of the third phase sectors has been taken up which is fast
coming up.
Chandigarh became a Union Territory in 1966 when the erstwhile State of
Punjab faced a three fold division. Haryana was carved out on one side. The hilly
areas went to Himachal Pradesh and the remaining areas continued as the State of
Punjab. Chandigarh was also declared the Capital of Punjab and Haryana, besides the
seat of Chandigarh Administration.
Chandigarh is considered as one district administratively. It is divided in 3
sub divisions Central, East and South. A Sub-Divisional Magistrate (SDM) heads each
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