Nek Chand Saini Artist

Nek Chand Saini (नेक चंद सैनी) is a self-taught Indian artist, known for building the Rock Garden of Chandigarh, an eighteen acre sculpture garden in the city of Chandigarh, India.He hailed from Shakargarh region (now in Pakistan) of district Gurdaspur. His family moved to Chandigarh in 1947 during the Partition. At the time, the city was being redesigned as a modern utopia by the Swiss/French architect Le Corbusier. It was to be the first planned city in India, and Chand found work there as a roads inspector for the Public Works Department in 1951. He was awarded the Padma Shri by Government of India in 1984.