Adding to the road infrastructure of the hill state, the Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) has recently approved the development of four-laning of the road project on NH-21 starting from Pandoh Bypass to Takoli section of the highway in Himachal Pradesh. The highway stretch of about 19-km is estimated to cost Rs.2,775.93 crore, including expenses for land acquisition, resettlement and rehabilitation, and other pre-construction activities. The project in question will be executed under National Highways Development Project phase IV-B on hybrid annuity mode. In a related development the Union Cabinet also approved a proposal to transfer 4.64 hectares of land belonging to the Indian Institute of Soil & Water Conservation Research Centre at Vasad in Gujarat’s Anand district to NHAI. The Institute will be paid a compensation of Rs.12.67 crore and the land is being acquired for the extension into six-laning of the Ahmedabad-Vadodara NH-8, said official sources.
