Gurgaon: A three-member committee will examine how the city’s railway station can be connected with the upcoming Millennium City Centre-Cyber City Metro Corridor. The decision to set up the panel was taken at a GMRL board meeting on Wednesday.The panel — chaired by Delhi Metro Rail Corporation director (operation & services) Amit Jain — was tasked with studying the modalities and feasibility to link the railway station through the proposed 1.8km spur from Sector 5. The committee will evaluate the options available and submit its recommendations before a final decision is taken by the board.A senior GMRL official, familiar with the meeting, said multiple alternatives are being explored for executing the link without affecting the implementation of the main metro corridor. “We have a few options on the table,” the official said.The spur was proposed to provide direct metro connectivity to the railway station and improve integration with Indian Railways. However, the plan is now being reassessed. Officials said the committee will study operational aspects, technical feasibility and financial implications before recommending the most suitable approach. “There were several points raised during the discussion. Instead of taking an immediate call, the board felt that a detailed study should be carried out. Once the committee completes its assessment, a final decision will be taken,” the official said.The matter is also linked to funding discussions with the World Bank, which is reviewing financial support for the metro corridor. Earlier, the lender advised that the railway station spur be processed separately as it was not part of the original sanctioned plan, and including it in the current project could delay approval for the Millennium City Centre–Cyber City corridor.Three options were discussed during the meeting. One suggests integration of the 1.8km spur with the Millennium City Centre–Cyber City corridor so that the railway station gets metro connectivity from the start. Officials cautioned that the corridor is planned to run trains at a high frequency of about every two minutes and adding a spur could create operational challenges.Another option is to construct the spur along with the main corridor but keep it operationally separate for now, allowing it to be integrated later when the proposed Railway Station–Bhondsi metro line is developed. The third option is to exclude the spur from the current corridor and take up the railway station connection later as part of the future Railway Station–Bhondsi line, which would simplify execution of the main project but delay metro access to the station.The 28.5km metro corridor between Millennium City Centre and Cyber City did not originally include a railway station link. Connectivity was instead planned through a skywalk. In Nov 2024, however, the state govt decided to add a separate line to improve intermodal connectivity, after which GMRL assigned RITES to carry out a feasibility study.In Oct last year, GMRL board approved railway station connectivity with the upcoming metro corridor. The 1.8km line was proposed to branch from Sector 5 and connect directly to Gurgaon railway station at an estimated cost of Rs 454 crore.
