<span style="color: #222222;">Centre has sanctioned 173 crore rupees for 58 national highway projects in Himachal Pradesh. </span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">Chief Minister Jai Ram Thakur told Assembly that the issue of declaring 69 highways and one other road as national highway has been taken up with the centre. </span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">He said, the issue of approval of draft alignment report of 54 roads and declaring them as national highways is also under consideration of the Centre.</span>