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The plantation will consist of indigenous species, replacing the exotic eucalyptus, with 1,200 trees on the Panchkula side and 148 on the Chandigarh side.t
Earlier, due to incessant rain, the train operation was stopped because of ladsliding, felling of tree at 135 places. Around 100 of such places are between Kalka and Solan and 35 are between Solan and Shimla.
As many as 17 trains have been cancelled by the Northern Railways and around 12 others have been diverted as heavy rains pounded several parts of the region.
The Centre had last week relaxed the limit of shrivelled and broken grain up to 18 per cent against the existing limit of 6 per cent for wheat being procured in Punjab, Chandigarh, Haryana, and Rajasthan.