Survey work on Gurgaon-Manesar-Bawal metro project in Sept

The survey work on the 108-km -long Gurgaon-Manesar-Bawal metro rail project will start in September this year, Haryana Chief Secretary SC Choudhary said here today.
Choudhary, who is also the Chairman of the Haryana Mass Rapid Transport Corporation (HMRTC), said that the survey work will be carried out by Japan International Cooperation Agency and the whole project would cost the state exchequer Rs 27,411 crore.
While presiding over a review meeting of the board of directors of HMRTC, he informed that a detailed project report was being prepared in this connection.
The project would be completed jointly by the Delhi- Mumbai Industrial Corridor Development Corporation (DMICDC) and HMRTC, Choudhary said, adding that nearly 465 acres of land has already been identified and notified for the project.

He said that Japan would provide cheaper loan of Rs 23,217.80 crore at the rate of 0.5 per cent for this project and the remaining amount of Rs 4,193.20 crore would be shared by the DMICDC and the HMRTC.
The project, slated to start in 2015, would be completed in four years and as many as 50 metro stations will be constructed under it, he said.

The HMRTC is working on a number of projects for metro extension in the state, he informed.
The project to extend Delhi Metro up to YMCA Chowk, Faridabad, would be completed by the end of September this year, he said, adding the 14-km-long project would cost Rs 2,454 crore.

Similarly, extension work of metro is being carried out from YMCA Chowk, Faridabad to Ballabhgarh at a cost of Rs 599 crore and from Sikandarpur Station to Sector-56, Gurgaon, at a cost of Rs 2,143 crore.