| Panchkula
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Languages |
| Hindi and Punjabi are the main
spoken languages in Panchkula. Haryanvi being the
state language and most of the Headquarters of main
office of Haryana lies here, it gets very imperative
that a large chunk of Haryanvi come here on postings
or settle here. Hence the Haryanvi Language is widely
spoken and understood here.English is also prevalent. |
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Panchkula is surrounded by Himachal
Pradesh in the north and east, Punjab and Union
Territory of Chandigarh in the west and by Ambala
district in the south as well as east. Panchkula
district shares its borders with Chandigarh, Mohali
district, Ambala district and Solan district.
Panchkula district has a sub tropical continental
monsoon climate where the seasons are, hot summer,
cool winter, good monsoon rainfall and great variation
in temperature (0 °C to 43 °C). In winter
frost sometimes occurs during December and January.
The district also receives winter rains from the
western disturbance. The rainfall is mostly received
in the monsoon. Morni hills constitute the highest
point of the district as well as of Haryana. The
Ghaggar river is the only perennial river. It is
very shallow outside of the monsoons. The Ghaggar
river system is now thought to be the original Saraswati
river, It now dries up in Rajasthan and does not
reach the sea. This is due to geological changes
that diverted the Sutlej from Ropar to take another
channel. The important rivers/streams of the district
are Ghaggar, Sirsa, Kaushalya.
Generally the slope of the district is from north
east to south west and in this direction, most of
the rivers/streams rainfed torrents flow down and
spread much gravels and pebbles in their beds. Only
the Sirsa river, in Kalka Tehsil, flows towards
northwest through a u arrow halt of shivalik tract.
The soils in the district are mainly light loam
(seoti) piedmont (Ghar and Kandi), Swalik (pahar),
silticlay (Naili and chhachhra Dakar) etc. The under
ground water in the district occurs under confirmed
and semi-confirmed conditions which is generally
fresh and suitable for domestic and irrigation purposes.
The under ground water level is generally high in
the southern parts and low in north and northeast
which is hilly tract. The district lies in a region
where earthquakes of moderate to high intensity
have been felt in the past. Being situated at the
Himalayan boundary fault zones it is prone to earthquakes.
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