<p>Most of the roads in the interiors of Himachal Pradesh remained closed to traffic for the fifth consecutive day Tuesday after heavy snowfall, grounding travellers and commuters.<br /><br /></p>.<p>However, the Chandigarh-Manali National Highway 21, which was closed for vehicles near Patlikuhl, 20 km before Manali, was reopened.<br /><br />Officials said roads in the higher reaches of Kinnaur, Shimla, Chamba, Mandi, Kullu and Sirmaur districts were severely hit by heavy snowfall and work was on to reopen these.<br /><br />"The road link to Narkanda, Rohru and Chopal (from Shimla) is likely to be restored by tomorrow (Wednesday)," Shimla Deputy Commissioner Dinesh Malhotra told IANS.<br /><br />The Himachal Pradesh Road Transport Corporation (HRTC) has been operating buses for Rohru and Chopal areas from Shimla via Vikasnagar in Dehradun district in Uttarakhand.<br />Officials said vehicular traffic on the Shimla-Theog-Rohru road via Kharapathar remained shut for the fifth day as a thick layer of snow covered the road.<br /><br />Buses from Shimla town to Rampur and Kinnaur district were plying via Dhami.<br />The internal roads in the tourist resorts of Shimla, Manali and Dalhousie were too slippery for traffic after the snowfall.<br /><br />Although the Shimla Municipal Corporation has cleared snow on Cart Road and some VIP roads, most of the other roads have not been cleared yet.<br /><br />Seven people lost their lives in the state in the past four days due to snowfall, officials said.<br /><br />Due to slippery condition of roads and pathways in Shimla, more than 30 people, most of them tourists, were injured, police said.<br /><br />Keylong, district headquarters of Lahaul and Spiti, was the coldest town in the state with a low of minus 17 degrees Celsius.<br /><br />The night temperature in the state capital was 1.6 degrees Celsius Monday, while popular tourist resort Manali saw a low of six degrees below freezing point. Kalpa in Kinnaur district was minus 9.2 degrees.<br /><br />The minimum temperature at Dharamsala, the venue of the fifth ODI between India and England Jan 27, was 4.2 degrees Celsius.<br /></p>
<p>Most of the roads in the interiors of Himachal Pradesh remained closed to traffic for the fifth consecutive day Tuesday after heavy snowfall, grounding travellers and commuters.<br /><br /></p>.<p>However, the Chandigarh-Manali National Highway 21, which was closed for vehicles near Patlikuhl, 20 km before Manali, was reopened.<br /><br />Officials said roads in the higher reaches of Kinnaur, Shimla, Chamba, Mandi, Kullu and Sirmaur districts were severely hit by heavy snowfall and work was on to reopen these.<br /><br />"The road link to Narkanda, Rohru and Chopal (from Shimla) is likely to be restored by tomorrow (Wednesday)," Shimla Deputy Commissioner Dinesh Malhotra told IANS.<br /><br />The Himachal Pradesh Road Transport Corporation (HRTC) has been operating buses for Rohru and Chopal areas from Shimla via Vikasnagar in Dehradun district in Uttarakhand.<br />Officials said vehicular traffic on the Shimla-Theog-Rohru road via Kharapathar remained shut for the fifth day as a thick layer of snow covered the road.<br /><br />Buses from Shimla town to Rampur and Kinnaur district were plying via Dhami.<br />The internal roads in the tourist resorts of Shimla, Manali and Dalhousie were too slippery for traffic after the snowfall.<br /><br />Although the Shimla Municipal Corporation has cleared snow on Cart Road and some VIP roads, most of the other roads have not been cleared yet.<br /><br />Seven people lost their lives in the state in the past four days due to snowfall, officials said.<br /><br />Due to slippery condition of roads and pathways in Shimla, more than 30 people, most of them tourists, were injured, police said.<br /><br />Keylong, district headquarters of Lahaul and Spiti, was the coldest town in the state with a low of minus 17 degrees Celsius.<br /><br />The night temperature in the state capital was 1.6 degrees Celsius Monday, while popular tourist resort Manali saw a low of six degrees below freezing point. Kalpa in Kinnaur district was minus 9.2 degrees.<br /><br />The minimum temperature at Dharamsala, the venue of the fifth ODI between India and England Jan 27, was 4.2 degrees Celsius.<br /></p>