Gurugram residents will soon be able to travel easily from one end of the city to another, escaping the city’s traffic jams! In a few years’ time, a new metro corridor will come up connecting all prominent areas of Gurugram with new metro stations. The Haryana government has recently approved the construction of a metro corridor which will begin where the Delhi Metro Yellow Line (Samaypur Badli-Huda City Centre) ends. The new Gurugram Metro corridor will reach the parts of the industrial estates across expressway and the old city, a Gurugram Metropolitan Development Authority (GMDA) official told Financial Express Online. This new metro stretch will create a 31 kilometres corridor which will also connect to the Gurugram Rapid Metro network at Cyber City.
New Gurugram Metro corridor, stations
The new metro corridor in Gurugram is likely to be commissioned by the year 2024. The new Gurugram metro corridor will have over 20 metro stations, namely, Cyber Park, Sector 45, Sector 46, Sector 48, Sector 47, Technology Park, Sector 10, Udyog Vihar Phase 6, Sector 37, Basai, Sector 9, Sector 7, Sector 5, Sector 4, Krishna Chowk, Ashok Vihar, Sector 3, Palam Vihar Extension, Sector 23 A, Palam Vihar, Sector 22, Udyog Vihar Phase 4 as well as 5.
According to the official, a detailed project report (DPR), was approved at a GMDA meeting recently and the DPR will be further sent to the Union Government for final approval. According to the DPR, the project extension will cost approximately Rs 6,000 crore and the work is expected to begin in the next summer season once all approvals are accepted and the land has been acquired.
In addition this, a 2-km-long extended corridor from Basai to the Dwarka Expressway has also been approved to improve the connectivity with the new and upcoming expressway. An extension from Sector 22 to Cyber City Rapid Metro, which is about 3 km, has been approved by GMDA too. The Haryana Mass Rapid Transport Corporation (HMRTC), which is the implementing body of the project’s construction has also recommended the setting up of a high-power committee to deal with several complications with regard to the land acquisition, utility diversion, shifting of structures falling on the project’s alignment as well as the rehabilitation of people affected by the project.
