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The board of Gurgaon Metro Rail Limited (GMRL) is set to take a final decision on Wednesday regarding how to connect the city's railway station with the upcoming Millennium City Centre-Cyber City Metro Corridor in Gurgaon.
Reviewing Options
Officials have proposed three options for a 1.8 km metro spur, linking Sector 5 with the railway station. The authority is currently reviewing these options while considering operational challenges and funding issues related to the main metro project.
Funding Plan for the Main Corridor
The proposal is being examined carefully because the World Bank is reviewing the funding plan for the main corridor. Earlier, the World Bank suggested that the railway station spur be a separate project, as it was not included in the original approved plan. It also warned that adding the spur to the current project might delay the approval of funds for the metro corridor. In addition, some legal requirements, such as environmental and social impact studies for the new stretch, are still pending.
List of Options to be Included
The first option is the inclusion of the spur as part of the main metro corridor. This would allow the railway station to get metro connectivity as soon as the corridor begins operations. While this would make travel easier for passengers, officials say the metro line is planned to run trains every two minutes. Because of such high frequency, adding a branch line may create operational difficulties and affect the smooth functioning of services.
The second option suggests building the spur with the main corridor but keeping it separate for now. In this case, the infrastructure would be constructed during the current phase, but metro services would start only after a future line between the railway station and Bhondsi is developed.
The third option is to drop the spur from the current project and build the railway station connection later as part of the proposed railway station-Bhondsi metro line.
An official said that the final decision will be taken by the GMRL board. The 28.5 km metro corridor, approved in June 2023, originally planned railway station access via a skywalk rather than a metro link.
