kullu the national highway authority of india nhai paid crores of rupees as compensation even for illegal structures on government land while widening the kiratpurmanali road the fourlane visthapit and prabahavit samiti fvps which works for the people displaced due to highwaywidening projects secured the details under the right to information rti act apparently the nhai paid about rs 3 crore as compensation for structures that stood on government land in bilaspur and mandi districtsthe rti reply from the land acquisition office also suggests that 26 people of bilaspur district received rs 167 crore as compensation the fvps has alleged that many claimants showed these buildings on private land and officials in the revenue department and nhai official helped them the nhai overlooked revenue record to clear many of these claimsin 2018 the nhai had asked its land acquisition department to list all these structures existing on government land and start recovering the compensation five years on no recovery has been made demanding an inquiry fvps general secretary madan sharma said that the total illegal compensation paid for structures along the entire chandigarhmanali highway could be bigger and accused the nhai officials of trying to hush up the mattermore than rs 2200 crore was disbursed as compensation for land acquired on the kiratpurchandigarh highway the project will reduce the road length from 232 to 197 kilometres and cut the chandigarhmanali travel time by at least three hours the nhai is yet to demolish 353 structures it had acquired between kiratpur and pandoh he saidin 35 revenue villages of bilaspur district and acquired 326 structures of which 53 continue to stand fully and 36 partially even though they occupiers claimed a compensation of rs 16 crore more of these structures are in the neighbouring mandi district