Chandigarh Largest Mall Elante - Elante Mall

Elante Mall is a shopping mall in the city of Chandigarh in India. With the gross leasable area of 1,150,000 sq ft, it is the second largest shopping mall in Northern India and the fourth largest in India. Elante is spread over 20 acres of area. It is part of a mixed use real estate development project by Larsen & Toubro called Elante.

Elante Mall has a retail space of over 1 million square feet. It has 2 basement levels, a ground level and three upper levels. In the retail area, Elante Mall hosts various Indian and international brands like Big Bazaar, Westside, Pantaloons, Lifestyle, Shoppers Stop, Hackett London, Zara, Marks & Spencer, Brooks Brothers, Rolex, Guess, Calvin Klein, Superdry, Tommy Hilfiger, Harley Davidson, Jack & Jones, Aldo, Mango, Steve Madden and Gucci among others. Elante boasts of a great food court, a wonderful courtyard full of cafes, sports bars and has various clothing brands. The Mall has an 8-screen Multiplex of PVR Cinemas. On its top floor, the mall has restaurants and fast food joints, including the ones by KFC, Chili's, Nando's, McDonald's, Burger King, Dunkin Donuts, Bikanervala, Subway and Domino's among others. For kids entertainment, there is a Fun City on the top floor which has large numbers of games for all age groups.

In 2013 the mall was burning 6000 litres of diesel daily due to a lack of electricity connection to the grid.

The mall requires a 15MW power supply.

In September 2015, Mumbai's Carnival Group bought Elante Mall, at a price of Rs 1,785 crore(more than US$ 274 million) making it one of the biggest deal for a single real estate or property in India.


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Terraced Flower Garden

Covering an area of 10 acres, Terrace garden in Chandigarh, India was set up in the year 1979. It is located in Sector 33. The main attraction factor of terraced flower garden is its lighted musical fountain, where popular folk as well as film songs are played. It serves as the main venue for conducting the Chrysanthemum Show that is held annually. Chandigarh terraced flower garden contains exquisite varieties of flowering plants. The atmosphere over here is very tranquil and people frequently visit this garden in the evenings to enjoy the cool breeze and to feast their eyes with the surrounding beauty.

BEAUTIFUL CITY

Chandigarh also called The City Beautiful. Chandigarh serves as the capital of two states: Punjab and Haryana. It is very neat and clean. Every one follows the traffic rules. The drive by the Chandigarh Police against violators of the traffic rules, through belated, is welcome. Parking is another area requiring attention. An acute shortage of parking space is being felt in some sectors. However, the responsibility for making the city roads safe does not rest with the police alone. Peoples help must be forthcoming. There are many things to see in the Chandigarh such as Rose Garden, Sector 17(Markets), Sukhna Lake and Rock Garden. All these 4 things are very famous in the chandigarh. Specially the Sector 17(Markets) are very famous because there are all sorts of shops here like Booksellers, Jewellery, ClothShops, General merchants, Stataioners, Shoe merchants, Tailors, Electrical applications, Dry cleaners and many more. Shops selling jewellery and ready made garments are a great attraction. For children, shops selling toys and confecionery are very favourite. Chandigarh has two satellite cities i.e. Punchkula and Mohali. Both of which share a border with it.

Sukhna lake, Rock Garden and Rose garden is also a very famous in the Chandigarh. This lake is situated in Chandigarh Sector1. Even the Sukhna lake provide numerous facilties such as shops, restaurant and many more. Morover, this lake is very famous for its water sports like boating, canoeing etc.

Rose garden is situated in Chandigarh Sector 16. In the garden grass is lush-green throughout, the flower-beds are always in bloom with the seasonal flowers and the small fountain in the center which is always working. The garden is visited by the people throughout the day.

Sector 17 market presents a colourful seen when lights are on neoon - sign boards are there. There are footpaths on both sides of the market for the pedestrians.

Chandigarh Transport Undertaking (CTU)

>CHANDIGARH<>: After sitting on it for several months, the administration on Monday finally notified hike in Chandigarh Transport Undertaking (CTU) bus fare in city and introduced distance-based slabs to replace the existing uniform fare system.

While travelling in non-air conditioned buses will cost Rs 5 up to five kilometres, passengers will have to shell out double the amount for longer distances. For air-conditioned buses, Rs 10 will be the fare up to five kilometres and Rs 15 for farther distances.

Presently, point-to-point travel anywhere in the city costs Rs 5 in non-AC buses and Rs 10 in AC mini-buses.

With CTU suffering losses of Rs 21 crore every year, the hike will help it raise an additional Rs 7.5 crore from sale of tickets.

Earlier, the finance department had given the option of one-slab model with Rs 8 as fixed fare, as it was considered more profitable compared to the two-slab system with tickets of Rs 5 and Rs 10, depending on the distance travelled by passengers, who will get divided in a ratio of 50:50 into the two categories of distances.

The argument was that a uniform fare also ruled out any manipulation by conductors, who could otherwise get a chance to oblige passengers by issuing a lower-priced ticket for more distance. But, the uniform fare option was eventually dropped.

No changes have been proposed in the monthly passes (point-to-point) for students (Rs 60) and employee passes issued in Chandigarh, Panchkula and Mohali (Rs 110).

Meanwhile, the transport department is hopeful that the recently-introduced new fleet of 14 low-floor buses will attract more passengers because of the better facilities offered in vehicles. The vehicles have been bought by UT under Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM), with 90% of the financial aid given by the ministry of urban development.