Parwanoo is a city and a municipal council in Solan district in the Indian state of Himachal Pradesh. It is an industrial town. It borders Panchkula district of Haryana, and is after the towns of Pinjore and Kalka on the Chandigarh Simla Highway. In fact it is separated by a river bed from the town of Kalka. Pinjore to Parwanoo is almost a continuous urban belt. From Pinjore there is also a road to Baddi. Another nearby industrial town of Himachal.

Overview

The town is divided into 6 different sectors spread randomly across the Shivalik Range in a radius of about 4 km. Parwanoo is essentially an industrial town with almost 80% of the local population engaged with the industries in one way or other.

To cash in on its proximity to Chandigarh and Panchkula the government set up industrial sectors and gave incentives that invited many small scale units to set up shop here. The incentives include exemption from taxes and financing incentives for expansion of existing projects. Prominent among the industrial units are IND-SPHINX Precision ltd Kapco International Ltd, Purolator, Morepen, Eicher (now sold to TAFE), Samtel. The full list of Industries can be found on Parwanoo Industrial Directory

Dalli on its northern outskirts (on the Simla highway) is famous for its meat pickle shops. A resort with a cable car called Timber Trail is a few miles north of the town on the Simla highway again.

The town is 35 k.m from Chandigarh and 20 k.m from Panchkula. There is also a route to Kasauli direct from Parwanoo, avoiding Dharampur.