Panchkula district (; ) was formed as the 17th
district of
Haryana state in
India on 15August 1995. It comprises two sub divisions and two
tehsils:
Panchkula and
Kalka. It has 264 villages out of which twelve are un-inhabited and ten wholly merged with towns or treated as census towns according to the 1991 census. There are five towns in the district:
Barwala,
Kalka,
Panchkula,
Pinjore and
Raipur Rani. The total population of the district is 319,398 out of which 173,557 are males and 145,841 are females.