thumb|Ghaggar river Chandigarh, Mohali. The Ghaggar river flows through the Puadh region thumb|The Punjab ("Five Rivers" and Ghaggar river); a physical map from "Companion Atlas to the Gazetteer of The World Puadh (IAST: [puādha], sometimes anglicized as Poadh or Powadh) is a historic region in north India that comprises parts of present-day Punjab, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh and the U.T. of Chandigarh, India. It has the Sutlej river in its north and covers the regions immediately south of the Ghaggar river. The people of the area are known as Puadhi and speak the Puadhi dialect of Punjabi. The
thumb|Ghaggar river Chandigarh, Mohali. The Ghaggar river flows through the Puadh region thumb|The Punjab ("Five Rivers" and Ghaggar river); a physical map from "Companion Atlas to the Gazetteer of The World Puadh (IAST: [puādha], sometimes anglicized as Poadh or Powadh) is a historic region in north India that comprises parts of present-day Punjab, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh and the U.T. of Chandigarh, India. It has the Sutlej river in its north and covers the regions immediately south of the Ghaggar river. The people of the area are known as Puadhi and speak the Puadhi dialect of Punjabi. The district headquarters of Puadh region are Rupnagar, Fatehgarh Sahib, Mohali, Patiala, Chandigarh, Panchkula and Ambala.
== Status == Puadh lacks official recognition, unlike the three other major Punjabi regions of Majha, Doaba, and Malwa. The government of Punjab does not list it as a region. Part of this is due to Puadh being subsumed under Malwa due to the prevailing belief that everything south of the Sutlej river in Punjab is "Malwa". This is despite Puadh being distinct from Malwa proper in both culture and language. There is also a lack of a natural boundary separating Puadh from Malwa, such as a river. Prior to the reorganization of Punjab in 1966, the region of Puadh fell under the Ambala district of present-day Haryana. Formerly an under-developed region, the area is becoming more propserous due to its proximity to Chandigarh and is increasingly urbanized. Charanjit Singh Channi was the first Puadhi chief minister of Punjab, with the rest being from Malwa and one from Majha.
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