SHIMLA: The world’s largest two-wheeler manufacturer, Hero Honda, plans to set up a manufacturing unit with an outlay of 2,200 crore in Himachal Pradesh. The company would also set up its auxiliary units along with the main unit.

Industries Minister Kishan Kapoor discloses this announcement in the assembly and said that a team of officials of the company had visited the state in June this year to finalise the land for the facility.

Later talking to IANS, Kapoor said the company officials had identified 1,500 bighas (one bigha is 0.4 hectare) near Nalagarh town in Solan district.

This will be the company's fourth unit in the country. It has two units in Gurgaon, Haryana, and another in Haridwar, Uttarakhand.