01 — Local economy
Business in Chandigarh
Le Corbusier's planned city is the shared capital of Punjab and Haryana and a Union Territory, so government, courts and institutions such as PGIMER and Panjab University anchor its economy. With Mohali and Panchkula it forms a tricity whose services cover healthcare, education, IT parks, retail around Sector 17 and a dense cluster of immigration and study-abroad consultancies. Light manufacturing runs from Industrial Area Phases I and II.
Where software helps: Study-abroad and immigration consultancies run long pipelines from first enquiry to visa, tracking counselling sessions, document checklists, university applications, language-test batches and staged fee payments for each student.