Lalru is a town and a Municipal Council In Mohali District about 30 km from

Chandigarh Chandigarh () is a planned city in India. Chandigarh is bordered by the state of Punjab to the west and the south, and by the state of Haryana to the east. It constitutes the bulk of the Chandigarh Capital Region or Greater Chandigarh, which al ...

, the capital of both

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and

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, on the Chandigarh-Ambala National Highway, NH 22. Lalru is having one of the toll tax barriers on this Chandigarh - Delhi National Highway. It is part of

Greater Mohali Greater Mohali is an extension of Mohali city and includes the areas of Kharar, Lalru and Landran. This area comes under Greater Mohali Area Development Authority ( GMADA). See also *Zirakpur Zirakpur is a satellite town, in Mohali Dis ...

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Chandigarh Capital Region Chandigarh Capital Region (CCR) or Chandigarh Metropolitan Region (CMR) is an area, which includes the union territory city of Chandigarh, and its neighboring cities of Mohali, Kharar, Zirakpur, New Chandigarh (in Punjab) and Panchkula (in Ha ...

(CCR) or Chandigarh Metropolitan Region (CMR), Which is an area, which includes the union territory city of Chandigarh, and its neighboring cities of Mohali, Zirakpur, New Chandigarh (in Punjab), and Panchkula (in Haryana). Chandigarh Administration, Greater Mohali Area Development Authority (GMADA) and Haryana Urban Development Authority (HUDA) are different authorities responsible for the development of this region. The economy of the region is interdependent as the area is continuously inhabited, though falling under different states. There is a lot of movement of people and goods daily to and from suburbs, like most of the people working in Chandigarh live in a suburb like Zirakpur. The local industry is on the outskirts like Derabassi, Lalru, and Baddi.

is an extension of Mohali city and includes the areas of Mundi Kharar, Lalru and Landran. This area comes under Greater Mohali Area Development Authority (GMADA).

History

1987 Lalru bus massacre on 6 July 1987 took place at Lalru in which 38

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were killed by pro-

Khalistan The Khalistan movement is a Sikhs, Sikh Separatism, separatist movement seeking to create a homeland for Sikhs by establishing a sovereign state, called Khālistān ('-stan, Land of the Khalsa'), in the Punjab, Punjab region. The proposed sta ...

Sikh Sikhs ( or ; pa, ਸਿੱਖ, ' ) are people who adhere to Sikhism, Sikhism (Sikhi), a Monotheism, monotheistic religion that originated in the late 15th century in the Punjab region of the Indian subcontinent, based on the revelation of Gu ...

anti-Government

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s when a bus was going from Dhilwan in

Kapurthala district Kapurthala district is a district of Punjab state in northern India. The city of Kapurthala is the district headquarters. Kapurthala District is one of the smallest districts of Punjab in terms of both area and population, with 815,168 people ...

Jalandhar Jalandhar is the third most-populous city in the Indian state of Punjab and the largest city in Doaba region. Jalandhar lies alongside the Grand Trunk Road and is a well-connected rail and road junction. Jalandhar is northwest of the state ...

was attacked by Sikh militants to drive out the million Hindus living in the state of Punjab and forced the Sikhs living outside of the Punjab state to move in to enable the Sikh separatists to claim the Punjab state as a sovereign country of Khalistan.

Educational Institutes

*Pratap Academy *Swami Parmanand Group of Colleges *Universal Group of Institutions *Punjab College of Engineering & Technology (PCET) *Ram Devi Jindal Group of Professional Institutions *Divya Shiksha Gurukul College of Education *Attri College of Education for Girls *Govt. ITI Lalru

References

{{Reflist Punjab, India Sahibzada Ajit Singh Nagar district