Mohali (SAS Nagar), Punjab, India

Mohali (officially Sahibzada Ajit Singh Nagar) (SAS Nagar) is the planned, tech-driven half of the Tricity, sitting just west of Chandigarh across the Ghaggar-adjacent belt. Where Chandigarh was built as an administrative capital, Mohali grew as its industrial and IT counterpart - and over the last decade that distinction has flipped. It's now the region's primary job-creation engine, not its overflow suburb. The city is governed largely by GMADA (Greater Mohali Area Development Authority), which means most of its sectors - from the older residential grids around Phase 1 to Phase 11, to newer developments like IT City, Aerocity, and Sector 82–85, sit on government-planned, clear-title land with wide roads and organized infrastructure, unlike the denser, private-builder layouts common in neighboring Zirakpur.