Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Jai Ram Thakur laid the foundation stone of a 100-metre span motorable double lane cable-stayed bridge over the Beas river on the Hanogi-Kholanala road in Mandi district. According to the sources, this bridge would ensure better connectivity between the Seraj and Drang areas. This would be the state’s first cable-stayed bridge that would be completed in two years. The bridge will be constructed at a cost of Rs 15.85 crore. The 165-km-long rail track from Pathankot in Punjab to Jogindernagar in Mandi district of Himachal Pradesh was once proposed to be declared a Unesco heritage site. The British had laid the Pathankot-Jogindernagar line in 1932, linking the prominent religious towns of Kangra and Mandi districts of the hill state.