About Sundernagar
Sunder Nagar town is the 5th largest town of the state located on the Chandigarh-Sunder Nagar-Mandi-Manali National Highway No.21 on the junction of roads connecting State and district headquarters in different directions. It has on excellent modal location. It has been acting as base station for the Beas Satluj Link Project activities and Emerged on important project town. In context of the state as whole, it has central location in both valleys, which is one of the most productive valley of the Himachal Pradesh. During the decades of 1970′s and 1980′s a log of Urban Development activities including establishment of offices of Chief engineer level pertaining to various Hydroelectric projects came upon the town.
Establishments
- The Government Polytechnic established in 1959 is one of the landmarks of Sundernagar. The office of the Director Technical Education HP is located in this campus.
- The office of the Director of Accounts (Postal), H.P. Circle is located at Sundernagar since November 1994.
- A unit of National Thermal Power Corporation is working here at Koldam, near Barmana.
- ACC Cement plant is also situated at Barmana Near Sunder Nagar.
- Bhakra Beas Management Board Office is situated here.
- Sundernagar houses a privately managed recognized dental college Himachal Dental College running a 5-year BDS Program and four 3-years MDS Programs. The College is affiliated to the Himachal Pradesh University, Shimla.
- The biggest hydro-electric project in mandi, the Beas-Satluj project, irrigating nearly one-fourth of the northern plains of India, has brought unprecedented prosperity to Sudernagar. The Beas-Satluj link colony is the biggest colony in Himachal Pradesh
Education
Sunder Nagar has emerged as an educational hub in past few years, having an Government Engineering College, Govt. Dental college and Govt. degree college. The notable educational institutions are :
- Mahavir Public Snr. Sec. School Sunder Nagar
- St. Mary’s School
- Angel’s Public School
- D.A.V public school
- Dreamz College of Pharmacy
- Dreamz Polytechnic College
- Government Polytechnic Sunder Nagar
- Govt. B.S.L. Sr. Sec. School
- Govt. Sr. Sec. Model School
- Govt. Sr. Sec. School(Boys)
- Govt. Sr. Sec. School(Girls)
- Himachal Dental College
- Jawaharlal Nehru Government Engineering College
- Maharaja Lakshman Sen Memorial College
- Sanskrit College