Gobindgarh

Gobindgarh is a town and a municipal committee in the Indian state of Punjab. It is also sometimes referred to as Steel Town or simply "Loha Mandi" ("Iron Market"), because of a large number of steel mills and factories. This town is famous not only in India but abroad also for the large number of forging and foundry units. Also the municipal committee of this town is one of the richest in whole Punjab. This lead was followed by Maharaja Partap Singh who took some special measures for the industrial development of the town. Accordingly, Gobindgarh was declared a free trade zone for steel in 1928. Thereafter it began to make tremendous progress in steel business. Land was made available to local blacksmiths at nominal rates in early 1940. This move led to establishment of a number of workshops on both sides of the G.T.Road at Gobindgarh. This was the nascent stage of development of the 'steel town'.

Gobindgarh Finally my time to see the historical fort in Amritsar that dates back to the turbulent times of 1760 and the fort was under control of Bhangi Misl or the Army of Bhangis. The name Bhangi has an interesting origin. One of the powerful general of the Misl (or the army of Soldiers, with loyalty towards the local leader) was addicted to Bhang or what is today called as Grass, Cannabis or Weed.