Bathinda

Bathinda.

-Tabar-e-Hind or Tabarhindh meaning the Gateway to India.
-Bathinda is nicknamed as the 'City of Lakes', courtesy of the artificial lakes in the city.
-The first empress of India, Razia Sultan was imprisoned in the Qila Mubarak fort in Bathinda.
-Home of upcoming AIIMS.
- Also home to two modern thermal power plants,
1. Guru Nanak Dev Thermal Plant and
2. Guru Hargobind Thermal Plant at Lehra Mohabbat.
-The city has a National fertilizer Limited owned by GOI , a large oil refinery Guru Gobind Singh Refinery owned by HPCL Mittal Energy Limited HMEL.

-Bathinda is home of two cement plants, Ambuja Cements and UltraTech Cement Limited.
- A zoo and a historic Qila Mubarak fort.
- Bathinda is one of the largest food grain and cotton markets in northern India.
-Three NHs.
1. NH 15 (connecting Samakhiali in Gujarat with Pathankot in Punjab)

2. NH-7 (Fazilka - Badrinath National Highway) and

3. NH-54 (Jaipur - Pathankot National Highway) .

-According to Ibn Batuta Bathinda was known as Batrind.
-Shares border with Haryana, Rajasthan and Sangrur, Mansa, Moga and Barnala districts.
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Central University of Punjab

-The Central University of Punjab Bathinda (Punjab) has been established through the Central Universities Act
2009 which received the assent of the President of India on 20 March 2009. Its territorial jurisdiction extends to the whole State of Punjab.

Damdama Sahib

-Damdama Sahib is one of the Five Takhts or Seat of Temporal Authority of Sikhism.
- It has been built at the
site where Guru Gobind Singh, the tenth Sikh Guru, prepared the full version of the Sikh Scriptures, called Sri Guru Granth Sahib, in 1705. Located in village of
Talwandi Sabo, 28 km to the southeast of Bathinda, the gurdwara was officially recognized as the Fifth Takht of Sikhism, on November 18, 1966.