The green-sustainable UT Chandigarh has a forest and tree cover of 35.5 percent in its 114 sq. km area. The city, the first planned one in post-independence India, was designed by French architect Le Corbusier and built in the early 1950s. MSRandhawa, an agriculturist-bureaucrat, is credited with planting a wide variety of trees in the city's early days.The tree cover prevented Chandigarh from becoming an all-concrete jungle, which has befallen many Indian cities. According to a survey the sector 16 cricket stadium which was earlier visible from a restaurant was no longer visible which means that the green over increased. According to the Chandigarh Forest and wildlife department and the municipal corporation horticultural wing over 2.2 million tree samplings were planted. This has made Chandigarh the leading city in terms of green cover.

Chandigarh