Ambala is known as city of scientific instruments. It is a major scientific products market and is a hub for products like glass apparatus, microscopes,laboratory equipments etc.Ambala constitutes nearly 34% of the total production of scientific instruments produced in India.Scientific instruments of Ambala are well known in India and the countries abroad. Ambala is also famous for its clothes market. The market possesses a wide range of custom-made clothes of ladies such as sarees, suits and lehangas and of gents such as pants, shirt, kurta-payjamas, sherwanis. People from the districts of Punjab, Haryana, Himachal, U.P and Uttarakhand often travel there on the occasions of marriage and other party shopping.
Education
Ambala has taken great strides in the field of education with a great number of engineering colleges coming on the map of Ambala in past decade. It also has several Boarding cum Day Boarding Schools which are considered to be amongst the best Schools in North India. Ambala's DAV College and S.A. Jain college(had students like Kumar Gautam) are famous for their Science, Arts and Commerce degrees while there has been a rise of several Private Universities and Colleges in the vicinity. An Army School is also operational in Ambala which caters to the educational needs of the children of both civilian and military personnel.
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