Le Corbusier on December 8, 1957 TO: M.S. Randhawa. Indian Vice Chair. Indian Council of Agricultural Research, New Delhi:
(...) Secretariat: The worksite is nearly empty. On my last visit (April-May 1957) all the orders were given and the Secretariat should have been finished by December 1957.
Assembly: One word must to be said here. The plans for the assembly are extraordinarily cheap. For example, the cost of the UNESCO building (...nearing?...) completion in Paris is five times higher than that of the assembly in Chandigarh. That must be known!
High Court: The maintenance of this building is appalling! Everybody has a very dangerous psychological reaction to it: peons, advocates, litigants, judges, and visitors. Where is the problem? The contact between different officers is not good. (...)
2. Urgent
Avoid the death of the enterprise! As already said above, this building will provoke a psychological reaction. In return, the confidence generated in the public will provide money by selling more land. The sketch (note: not found) below shows how good urbanism creates money (only bad urbanism costs money). Urbanism is to create plans (technical set), to make the plans reality at the right time and at right place (that is the task of the authorities). The first affirmation has been completed based on the existing Chandigarh plan; the second is precisely the reason behind the creation of the Chandigarh Board, which has to make the decision in time and space. (It is the board in its future successful meetings). (...)

Data is inexplicit: December 9/10, 1957 - by A.R. Prabhavalkar / Junior Town Planner about Sukhna Dam.to Gill (?) under instruction of Le Corbusier- by Le Corbusier as it is signed by Le Corbusier:
(...)4. REACTION OF THE WORLD. BAD OR GOOD? Chandigarh is a realization not only for Punjab or India but also for the whole world. People’s attention is focused on Chandigarh for many things: new technology, new architecture, new way of life (the utmost importance for political decisions). It was said: “India has begun the construction of a capital.” It must be said: “India cannot continue and finish it.”
a) If, through the board’s decision, Chandigarh is finished in useful stages, the psychological reaction will impact the local population, the visitors, and create tourism.
b) And in this circumstance, money will be made. The land of Chandigarh is a treasure to be extracted by its proper development and cultivation.

New Delhi, December 18, 1957. From: Shri M.K. Kidwai. I.A.S. Deputy Secretary of the Govt. of India. To: The Secretary to the Government of Punjab, Capital Project, Chandigarh. Subject: Setting up a board for Chandigarh Capital:
(...) 4-(....) a house and to become a citizen of the city (and the city has been named Chandigarh, which should signify something). The first arrivals have had democratic pricing conditions for the plot, because they have shown courage. Now the city is being completed, and the men who come now are those who will profit from the pioneers. The urbanist of Chandigarh foresaw the situation and, at first, forbid to sell the best located land on the main roads and in the city center. He has decided that the town hall should not be constructed on these privileged spaces but at the heart of the city center. It was a financial factor to give value to the depreciated land and, in turn, a higher value to the land along the roads. That is making money! Now the authority (the board) must reap the harvest, selling the plots at high prices (that is urbanism). The Chandigarh board is guaranteed to generate big money this way.”

(MH)