A Finance Ministry panel has approved seven projects, including widening of roads in five states at an estimated cost of about 7,553 crore rupees under Public-Private-Partnership mode. According to a press release issued by Ministry of Finance in New Delhi, the Public-Private-Partnership Appraisal Committee headed by Secretary, Department of Economic Affairs R Gopalan, approved the five projects of the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways and two of the Ministry of Home Affairs.The projects include four-laning of Jabalpur-Katni-Rewa Section of NH-7 in Madhya Pradesh with an estimated cost of nearly 1,906 crore rupees and six-laning of Icchapuram-Srikakulam-Anandpuram section of NH-5 in Andhra Pradesh.