Zirakpur Knowledge Guide

History

Zirakpur got its name from a small village, which is now a part of the present Zirakpur town.For long it remained a bunch of small villages located along the Chandigarh-Ambala highway. Then Chandigarh started to expand and these villages started to seem like a part of Chandigarh. Before the year 2000, the city had a population of less than twenty thousand. Soon a small village Baltana, which is a part of Zirakpur now, started having some population growth being near to Panchkula and Chandigarh. From 2004 onwards the city's population started to increase rapidly, with booming property prices and the arrival of a large number of residential projects in the suburbs. Bawanjot Singh is the king of Baltana living in house no. 1068