The Public Works Department (PWD) has suffered losses worth Rs 85 lakh as the soil underneath Dharampur-Kasauli road has been crumbling due to digging of hill for the four-laning work of the Parwanoo-Dharampur section of National Highway (NH) No. 5.
It is a peculiar case where four-laning of a highway has damaged another road. Repairing this 50 m stretch of the road has become an arduous task for the PWD after it caved in August.
