Baddi is an important industrial town in the Solan district of Himachal Pradesh. The locality is nestled right on the Himachal Pradesh and Haryana border on the Shivalik hills which is located around 35 kilometres away from Solan. Chandigarh lies approximately 40 kilometres away from the locality. The area has witnessed huge development of late and this has benefited the Baddi property market immensely as well. The demand for residential property in Baddi has grown by leaps and bounds and there are several leading developers active in the real estate in Baddi. These include Omaxe, Sandwoods Infratech and Amarnath Aggarwal. Property prices usually range between INR 1, 860 and 2, 288 per sq. ft. in this area.
Baddi is one of India’s leading pharmaceutical production centres and is credited with being the site where most Pharma formulations originate from. Excise duty exemption has attracted multiple investors to the area and these include Dr. Reddy’s Ltd, Promed, Bal Pharma, USV Limited, Alkem Laboratories Ltd, Wings Group, Glenmark Pharmaceuticals Ltd and Unichem among several others. Companies like Hindustan Unilever, Colgate Palmolive, Cadburys, Procter and Gamble and Johnson and Johnson also have an active presence in the area. The area is also a hub for the corrugated box manufacturing industry in the country and companies like Horizon Packs and Monad Technologies Pvt Ltd have set up shop here.
The railway link till Chandigarh has boosted overall connectivity in Baddi. Leading hospitals in the area include the Drishti Eye Hospital, ESI Dispensary, Bhardwaj Hospital, Gupta Hospital, Malhotra Superspeciality Hospital and the Bhojia Dental College and Hospital among others. The area is also home to several reputed educational institutions including ICFAI University, Alpine Public School, Baddi University of Emerging Sciences and Technologies, Bhojia Dental College, Chitkara University, IEC University, Surendra Public School, Govt Senior Secondary School and the Sri Aurobindo Public School among many others. The information technology sector is also thriving in this locality.
