The Government has approved 16 highway projects in 11 states to be executed at a cost of 7,457 crore rupees. Talking to reporters in New Delhi yesterday, Road Transport and Highways Secretary Sanjay Mitra said, the standing Finance Committee has cleared these projects for 622 kilometre.<br/><br/>He said that two of the projects pertain to Char Dham yatra connectivity in Uttarakhand. Mr Mitra said, Projects will be bid out shortly while work on them would start after acquisition of 90 per cent land. <br/><br/>The projects are in Maharashtra, Odisha, West Bengal, Andhra Pradesh, Gujarat, Chhattisgarh, Haryana, Uttarakhand, Arunachal Pradesh, Assam and Sikkim.