Command Canteen - Panchkula

Very clean shopping canteen but many necessary items are not stocked all the time

Well laid out, spacious place with seperate outlets for different types of stock.

The standard, upkeep and efficiency at defence facilities is of top order.

Command canteen located in side the Chandi Mandir Cantt area. It's at the hill hop of a mountain. Very peaceful area and here u can bay everything in the CSD canteen. A proper planned parking of Two wheeler or four wheeler. Also have sitting area with food court.

Chandi Mandir Cantonment is a military cantonment of the Indian Army located in Panchkula district at the foot of the Sivalik Hills adjoining Panchkula city in Haryana. It is the headquarters of the Western Command of the Indian Army. Chandimandir Cantonment as well as the Chandigarh city are named after the Chandi Mandir. The Chandi Mandir is located within the Chandimandir Cantonment and it is managed by the Shri Mata Mansa Devi Shrine Board. Establishment of cantonmentEdit The military camp was built in the late 1960s as the Western Army Command Headquarters of the Indian Army. A new branch of the army raised during the 1971 Indo-Pak war (II Corps) was housed there until the mid-1980s. Until then the Western Army Command had been in Shimla, although not many Command units could be housed there due to a shortage of space; in the mid-1980s two corps (Kharga) moved to Ambala, and Western Command was relocated from Simla to Chandimandir. It is among the few modern military stations built in independent India whose history does not date back to the British Indian Army. The army base is in the foothills of the Shivaliks. The low rolling hills of the region are covered with dry thorny forests. To its northern edge, the forest and hills extend to the valley between the foothills and the main Himalayan range, containing the municipalities of Baddi and Nalagarh.[3] Most of the trees and the green vegetation covering the foothills around Chandimandir were planted by the army. The trees are mostly kikar (Acacia), with Zizyphus berry bushes in the undergrowth. Three of the five kuls (canals) of Panchkula pass through this area. The village that gives Chandimandir Cantonment[4] its name is on its Northeastern edge along the Chandigarh-Kalka highway. It lies north of Panchkula city, east of the Ghagghar River, and west of Mata Mansa Devi and Saketri, Nepal. Chandimandir is in the northwest of this Quadrant. The Chandimandir Old Panchkula Road forms its southern boundary. The Zirakpur Kalka highway is close to the western boundary, and the Ghagghar River forms parts of the western boundary. Chandigarh is 15 kilometers away, though the Sector 13 of Chandigarh is only some 4 kilometers. The urban estate Panchkula's Sectors 1, 6 and parts of 7 are just south of the cantonment's southern boundary. Pinjore is just eight kilometers to the north and Kalka 15 kilometers.

This is my third visit to the canteen located at main gate of Chandimandir Cantt inlast four months after shifting to panchkula post retirement. Even a unit canteen is better stocked. If all CSD started getting stocked like this canteen, soon it will be without customers and govt will quote low footfall for taking away this facility also

Could not find fault even after looking for 15 to 20 minutes ! Impeccable in every way. Amazing how the armed forces excel - whether in war or at peace. God bless them.

Well stocked and well managed grocery store for the bona fide service clients and their dependents. Located in the shopping complex at the most convenient location with other facilities like ATM, gift shop, fruits and vegetables shop etc to add to the customer convience. A beautiful experience.