The Shimla Chandigarh Expressway is an under construction long expressway connecting

Chandigarh Chandigarh is a city and union territory in northern India, serving as the shared capital of the states of Punjab and Haryana. Situated near the foothills of the Shivalik range of Himalayas, it borders Haryana to the east and Punjab in the ...

Shimla Shimla, also known as Simla ( the official name until 1972), is the capital and the largest city of the northern Indian state of Himachal Pradesh. In 1864, Shimla was declared the summer capital of British India. After independence, the city ...

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National Highway 5 (India) , direction_b = East , terminus_b = Shipki La, Sino-Indian border , states = Punjab, India, Punjab, Chandigarh, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh , destinations = Moga, Jagraon, Ludhiana, Mohali, Chandigarh, Panchkula, Kalka, Solan, Shimla, Theog, Nar ...

.The four laning project involves the creation of 11 tunnels between Maliana (Shimla) and Kothi to help reduce the distance by 19 km. The total length of the tunnels will be 9.5 km. The two longest tunnels will be of 2.27 km each between Taradevi and

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Kandaghat Kandaghat is a small town and tehsil (sub-district), near Solan city in the Solan district of Himachal Pradesh, India which is on the Kalka-Shimla National Highway No. 22. The road to the famous tourist destination of Chail turns from Kanda ...

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Solan Solan is a city in the Indian state of Himachal Pradesh and the district headquarters of Solan district. It is located south of the state capital, Shimla. Solan has an average elevation of . The city is situated between Chandigarh (joint cap ...

. The state government wants that the highway be realigned and include more tunnels to reduce the distance by another 20 km. The

Himalayan expressway The Himalayan Expressway is a 27.5 km stretch of highway in India that runs through the Sivalik Hills, Shivaliks at the trijunction of Haryana, Punjab, and Himachal Pradesh. It is part of the Chandigarh–Shimla Expressway which connects Z ...

stretch of it was opened in June 2021. Four lane project In September 2015, Construction works are commenced on the project. On 27 September 2016, tenders were invited for the construction of Solan-Kaithlighat section, with last submission date as 11 November 2016. As of February 2017, the project is facing delay due to legal issues and construction works on the first phase are kept on hold. Earlier the project was put on hold due to legal issues; however the project resumed in June 2017. In August 2023, several sections of the expressway were damaged by landslides and floods during the 2023 North India floods. Geologists argued that the cutting of the mountains for highway construction had destabilized the slopes.

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