Dharamshala, June 11 -- With the Kangra airport expansion project underway, Himachal Pradesh government has approved Rs.16.76 crore to 113 families on a humanitarian basis, who had shops and other businesses on government land, in the vicinity of the Kangra airport.

As the land acquisition process for the Kangra airport expansion is underway, Rs.2,148 crore has been disbursed till June 4, officials aware of the matter said. The state government is expanding the airport and acquiring around 150 hectares of land for the project. The total cost of land acquisition has been pegged at approximately Rs.3,500 crore.

Shahpur MLA and deputy chief whip Kewal Singh Pathania said this is perhaps the first case in the country where people running bu...