Haryana Govt Approves 28.8 km Gurugram Metro Line

Haryana Government on Thursday announced its cabinet had approved the final Detailed Project Report (DPR) for a 28.80 km elevated metro line in Gurugram (Gurgaon) connecting HUDA City Centre with Moulsari Avenue in DLF Cybercity through 27 stations at an estimated cost of Rs. 6821.13 crore.

The Haryana government had appointed the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) in June 2016 to prepare this line’s techno-economic feasibility report (TEFR) and appointed a consortium of RITES and School of Planning and Architecture (SPA) in late-2017 to prepare its Detailed Project Report (DPR).

The state government and local media have been notorious in announcing approvals, sometimes even stretching decisions as approvals, for various new metro lines over the past decade (200 kms proposed) without an official approval being accorded, but this time the approval comes with an official press release by the government’s PR department which lends some credibility.

Here’s the press release:

To provide Metro Connectivity to the residents of old Gurugram, Haryana Cabinet accorded approval for final Detailed Project Report (DPR) of Metro Rail Connection from HUDA City Centre to  various important locations in Gurugram at a cost Rs. 6821.13 crore. The total length of the corridor shall be about 28.80 km, consisting of 27 elevated stations with six interchange stations.  This link  would start at HUDA City Centre and move towards Sector 45, Cyber Park, District Shopping Centre, Sector 47, Subhash Chowk, Sector 48, Sector 72 A, Hero Honda Chowk, Udyog Vihar Phase 6, Sector 10, Sector 37, Basai village, Sector 9, Sector 7, Sector 4, Sector 5, Ashok Vihar, Sector 3, Bajghera Road, Palam Vihar Extension, Palam Vihar, Sector 23 A, Sector 22, Udyog Vihar Phase 4, Udyog Vihar Phase 5 and finally merge in existing metro network of Rapid Metrorail Gurugram, at Moulsar Avenue station near Cyber City.

This Mass Rapid Transit System (MRTS) project will facilitate maximum part of Gurugram city. It will interchange with MRTS Corridor at Subhash Chowk, with Bus Stand at Sector 10, with Railway Station at Sector 5 and with Rapid Metro at Moulsari Avenue Station.

MRTS Corridor at Subhash Chowk will interchange with yellow line at HUDA City Centre and therefore, will provide direct connectivity to a large part of Gurugram with Delhi. The daily ridership on the study corridor for the years 2025, 2031 and 2041 is expected to be 5.34 lakh passenger trips, 7.26 lakh passenger trips and 8.81 passenger trips respectively.

Indicative alignment of the HUDA City Centre – Moulsari Avenue metro line with key destinations marked – view Gurgaon Metro info & route map

The line will pass right by the under construction Dwarka Expressway in New Gurgaon.

The official DPR file has not been shared, so details about the line’s funding sources/split, depot location, construction suggestion (U-girder or segmental box girder), and train operational plan etc. remain unknown.

The press release mentions the line will “interchange with yellow line at HUDA City Centre” which indicates it’ll be an entirely new line executed and operated by Haryana Mass Rapid Transport Corporation Limited (HMRTC), and will not operated by the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) as an extension of the existing Yellow Line.

At Udyog Vihar, I imagine the line will have an interchange facility to switch over to the 106 km Delhi – SNB RRTS line which in the future will connect Delhi’s Sarai Kale Khan with Shahjahanpur, Neemrana and Behror in Rajasthan through 17 stations.

I consider the past 10 years to be a lost decade for Gurgaon, so while this news is encouraging, I’ll be entirely convinced only when I see a tender notice for appointing its Detailed Design Consultant (DDC) or General Consultant (GC).

For more updates, check out the Gurgaon section of The Metro Rail Guy!

– TMRG

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Global traveler who prefers mass rapid transit

17 Responses to "Haryana Govt Approves 28.8 km Gurugram Metro Line"

  1. Himanshu Doria says:

    The budget seems to very less for metro. Are they opting for light metro or metro neo ?

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  2. Aishwarye says:

    When can we expect the first tenders for this extension to roll out?

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  3. s m toora says:

    It tool long 10 years for Haryana Government to approve Metro line and still it has not provided connectivity to Airport and Dwarka which was demanded by most of the residents. One can comapre the level of efficiency in connecting Noida / Ghaziabad with Delhi and what we got from Haryana Government . One fail to understand how come long 10 years were taken to decide such and important project. The connectivity with Dwarka sector 21/Airport line would have provided an edge and much need relief to Gurgaon residents and would certainly decongested the notorious traffic jams and water logging in rainy season. One can only appeal to Haryana Government to it should once again have a relook at the project and provide connectivity from Palam Vihar /Sector, 23 as proposed earlier, to give gurugram residents another line to connect to Delhi.

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  4. chinmay says:

    I feel this is yet another political stunt. Seeing this news for past 10 years

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  5. Abhishek says:

    Earlier DPR had proposed a metro station in sector 104 to provide connectivity to residents of societies along dwarka expressway. What happened to that?

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  6. Ashu Arts says:

    Hello TMRG,

    The viaduct of this new line will be linked with the existing yellow line or not? And how their will be connection between these two lines?

    A big question stills in the mind of metro lovers.

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  7. Ashu Arts says:

    Hello TMRG,

    The viaduct of this new line will be linked with the existing yellow line or not? And how their will be connection between these two lines???

    A big question stills in the mind of metro lovers.

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  8. Harsh says:

    Metro kon se road se touch rahegi

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  9. KQ ji says:

    when already the raid metro is under delhi metro, why is the existing yellow line getting extended to Manesar?

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  10. Gautam Agarwal says:

    Have been seeing such news for quite sometime. It will remain on papers till they arrange for the funds which is not very difficult for such a project. The most amazing part is it took them 5 years to finalize a project which can decongest whole of Gurgaon. Now we can expect another 7-10 years before the metro actually starts running and by that time traffic would have become a nightmare in the city.

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  11. Ajay says:

    Gurgaon seems is not a priority for the current Haryana Govt. No new infra development projects are done in Gurgaon for past 10 years. The much touted Sohna Road over bridge will cause more chaos for Sohna road residents, as it cannot be used the the resident so Sohna road, since it has not exit/entry on Sohna Road. Long live our Town Planners

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  12. Shashi Bhushan Kumar says:

    Hi,

    Any new update regarding this metro line??

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  13. aditya says:

    Hi, Whats the update on gurugram metro, Now that dwarka expressway is underway of getting operational soon.

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