The National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD) has approved five road projects for Sirmaur district. The approval had been granted for the construction of three major roads and the improvement of one link road in the Paonta Sahib Assembly constituency.

The state government has prepared a special plan to construct buffer storage to strengthen drinking water schemes. As a pilot project the scheme would be initially implemented in Mandi and Kullu districts and later replicated in other districts. Under the scheme, gravity drinking water would be accumulated for about three months and utilized at the time of need.

The Chief minister of Himachal Pradesh has inaugurated development projects worth around Rs 250 crore in Dharamsala. These projects include Dharamsala-McLeod Ganj Ropeway, Dhouladhar Convention centre, DC office cafeteria and parking, Aghanger Temple complex, MC Parking, Dhouladhar Garden, MILKFED Biscuit Plant, among others.

The Cultural Centre at Janjehli in Mandi district has been completed at Rs. 25.75 crore and would be operational on the PPP mode. Meanwhile, the heliport in Shimla would be completed by the end of July.

The increase of Tehsil Kandaghat lift water supply scheme at Badron, Gram Panchayat Satrol, worth Rs. 1.41 crore, was recently inaugurated.

The foundation stone has been laid for a lift water supply scheme from Pabbar river to outhouses of various Gram Panchayats of Kotkhai, Nawar Rohru block in Himachal Pradesh, to be constructed at a cost of Rs. 24.87 crores under the Jal Jivan Mission.

The construction of a parking lot at Gulaba in Manali will be completed in the next month. It would have a capacity to accommodate 110 vehicles. Due to lack of car parking facilities, tourists and taxi drivers used to park their vehicles on the roadside, causing traffic jams.

India is endowed with large hydropower potential of 1,45,320 MW, and is the seventh largest producer of hydroelectric power in the world.

The Government of Himachal Pradesh is hoping to attract investment commitments of more than Rs 850 billion from overseas investors at an international investment conference which would be hosted in November, 2019.