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Gurugram To Get 28.5-km Metro Link Connecting Yellow Line and Cyber City
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Haryana Chief Minister Nayab Singh Saini and Union Housing and Urban Affairs Minister Manohar Lal performed the Bhoomi Pujan on Friday (5 September) for the 28.5-kilometre Gurugram metro corridor, reported The Hindu.
The elevated route will connect Millennium City Centre metro station on DMRC's Yellow route to Rapid Metro in Cyber City, passing through Old Gurugram.
Gurugram Metro Rail Limited (GMRL), a joint venture between the Centre and Haryana, will implement the Rs 5,452.72-crore project in two phases.
The first phase covers 15.5 kilometres, while the second covers 13 kilometres.
Chander Shekhar Khare, GMRL's Managing Director, stated that civil work for Phase 2 would begin soon after Phase 1.
The corridor will feature 27 stations linking Subhash Chowk, Hero Honda Chowk, Udyog Vihar (Phases 4–6), Basai Village, Sector 5, Sector 3, Palam Vihar Extension, and Palam Vihar, before merging with Rapid Metro.
A 1.85-km spur from Basai Village to Dwarka Expressway will include a station at Sector 101, and a metro depot will be built at Hero Honda Chowk.
He added that future extensions, including Rejangla Chowk–Dwarka Sector 21, Sector 56–Pachgaon, and the NaMo Metro corridors (Delhi–Karnal, Delhi–Neemrana, Gurugram–Noida via Faridabad), were also planned.
Manohar Lal noted that metro services have expanded under Prime Minister Modi from 248 km in five cities in 2014 to 1,066 km across 24 cities today, with another 970 km underway.
He stated that India would become the world leader in metro service availability.
The Urban Ministry would supply 10,000 buses at concessional rates across the country, with 450 in Haryana and 100 in Gurugram, linked to metro stations via app-based systems for safety and easy fare collection.
