Wayside amenities to come up on Parwanoo-Shimla National Highway

In a bid to facilitate commuters, wayside amenities would be developed by the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) on the Parwanoo-Shimla stretch of the NH.

Though the state Tourism Department had developed such amenities on this highway prior to its four-laning, these were demolished to pave the way for widening of the road. Absence of such facilities was causing inconvenience to commuters.

“Since the NHAI has not handed over the highway to the state government we are unable to develop such facilities on the NH-5,” informed District Tourism Development Officer, Solan, Ratti Ram. He said that they planned to develop at least two such facilities on the Parwanoo-Solan stretch provided land was made available to them.