Shimla

Many roads including four national highways have been closed and many power supply and water supply schemes were disrupted following heavy snowfall in Himachal Pradesh.

"Due to heavy snowfall, 731 roads including four National Highways closed, 1365 power supply schemes disrupted, 102 water supply schemes disrupted and 3220 electricity supply schemes were disrupted, out of which 1,955 have been restored," the State Disaster Management Authority said in a statement.

The India Meteorological Department (IMD) said on Monday that very dense fog was reported at isolated places in the state including Kalpa where the visibility dipped down to 50 metres.

"At 0830 hrs IST of today, Very Dense Fog reported at isolated places over WP (Agra 00 km), Madhya Maharashtra (Mahabaleshwar 25 m) and dense fog Punjab (Bhatinda 50m), HP (Kalpa 50m), Uttarakhand (Mukteshwar 50m) and Jharkhand (Ranchi 50 m) and Delhi (Palam 800m and SFD 1200m)," the IMD tweeted.

The Regional Meteorological Centre in Shimla said the temperature in the city dropped down to minus one degrees Celsius.

Several parts of Himachal Pradesh received fresh snowfall on Monday. Shimla and Mcleod Ganj area of Dharmshala witnessed snowfall.