Tunnel work halted due to unstable strata, water tank
Unstable strata and the presence of a water tank on the hill right above a 460-m tunnel have stopped the work to connect its two ends at Kandaghat on the Solan-Kaithlighat section of the National Highway No. 5.
The National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) has worked out a new alignment to connect the two ends of the tunnel. The work to widen this 22.91-km section of the highway was supposed to be completed by the end of this year but this additional work is bound to delay it.
A detailed project report (DPR) is prepared when such projects are executed but the presence of a water tank was perhaps ignored while finalising this project.
