<Tr> <Th> Movement </Th> <Td> Outsider Art </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Awards </Th> <Td> Padma Shri (1984) </Td> </Tr> <P> Nek Chand Saini (15 December 1924--12 June 2015) was a self - taught Indian artist, known for building the Rock Garden of Chandigarh, an eighteen - acre sculpture garden in the city of Chandigarh, India . </P> <P> 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 . He died in 2015 . </P>

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