Panel a: NIR color composite image of the region associated with the H II regions using VVV JHK bandimages (red – K; green – H; blue – J). “×” marks show the location of the H II regions. Panel b: zoomed in view of indicated region related to G346.077−0.056. The yellow circle denotes the size of the cluster as estimated by Borissova et al. (2011). The cyan contours show the higher-resolution 1280 MHz radio emission with the levels same as those plotted in Fig. 2.