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Talking to the Indian Express, Lalit Jain, Chief Executive Officer, BBNDA said that an experiment was done by the development authority with the technical assistance of Central Road Research Institution, in which 2 per cent of the total bitumen was mixed with plastic shredded waste, like plastic packets, plastic bottles, which are first shredded, cleaned and washed and then mixed in the bitumen.
The commuters on the Chandigarh-Shimla National Highway have welcomed the news.
While the GR Infra, the construction company carrying out the repair work, claims that no work regarding the strengthening of the hill slope at Chakki Mor can be started without the approvals of the NHAI, the NHAI officials maintain that the approvals take their own time, but the work of slope strengthening at Chakki Mor should not stop, just for the sake of approvals.
The NHAI has set a target to complete work by October 15, but the road is likely to only remained closed on Monday night.
Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra visited flood-affected areas in Himachal Pradesh, reviewing relief efforts and speaking to locals about apple production and prices. The state has suffered losses of ₹8,600 crore ($1.2 billion) due to heavy rain this monsoon.