Bathinda is an important city of Punjab which is ranked as the second cleanest cities of Punjab. It had many rulers since early times and was captured and recaptured many times, thus has a long history. Before independence, Bathinda was ruled by the King of Patiala but post-independence it was made a separate district. Bathinda has two main thermal power plants namely; Guru Nanak Dev Thermal Plant and Guru Hargobind Thermal Plant. Besides that, there are two cement plants and a fertilizer plant as agriculture had been the top occupation of the people of the place for a long time now. Bathinda has some iconic places for the people to visit, the most popular ones are the GurudwaraTakht Sri Damdama Sahib and the Qila Mubarak fort, which was built in second century CE by King Kanishka. The first female ruler of India, the great Razia Sultan was kept captive here and then executed when she lost in the battle with her own people who opposed her coronation. The city has good schools and a few reputed educational institutions like Maharaja Ranjit Singh Punjab Technical University, Central University of Punjab and AIIMS Bathinda.

Bathinda has been infamous for the high number of cancer patients which is believed to be the result of improper waste treatment processes of the industries and the use of chemical pesticides in farming in large quantities due to the Green Revolution. Other than Cancer, it has also impacted other body functions and has resulted in the poor birth rates. This is the biggest reason for the people of the city to migrate to safer places in India and abroad. Bathinda is called the “Food Basket of India” because Agriculture is the main occupation of people here. The related sectors like transportation, poultry farming and livestock rearing are second to farming. That is the reason the young adults usually try to go abroad to study agriculture so that they could learn and implement safer agricultural practices in their farms which they have back home. The immigration consultants in Bathinda offer their services to the students or working professionals to go to the country of choice so that they can have a better life. There are many of them in the city, however only a few are reliable, one of them is Abroad Gateway which has been helping students and working professionals to go abroad successfully for past 10 years.