Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal on Monday directed the officers to work actively to realise the commitment of the State Government for extension of metro connectivity in NCR especially in districts Gurugram, Faridabad, Sonipat, Jhajjar and Rohtak so as to ensure ease of traffic and providing better public transport system to people of the state.
The Chief Minister was presiding over review meeting of Delhi Metro Rail Projects in the state.
He said that the control of all metro rail projects in the state should be brought under Haryana Metro Rail Transport Corporation so that the state would not have to rely on organizations such as Delhi Metro Rail Corporation and RITES.
The new metro rail projects which were reviewed in the meeting included 4.86 km long metro corridor from Narela to Kundli which would be extended till Rajiv Gandhi Education City, about 30.38 km long metro corridor between Gurugram and Faridabad, 17.10 km long metro corridor from City Park (Bahadurgarh) to Sampla, 23.10 km long metro corridor between Badsa (AIIMS and National Cancer Institute) and Dwarka (via NPR). Similarly, 6.30 km long metro connectivity on SPR between Sector 56 and Vatika Chowk, Gurugram was also reviewed.
During the meeting, it was informed that at present the biggest metro rail network of the country of 40 kms is available in Haryana and there is a proposal to extend it to 75 to 80 kms in the fourth phase of Delhi Metro Rail Corporation.
The Chief Minister directed the officers to explore possibilities to work on metro rail project in tricity, Chandigarh through Haryana Metro Rail Transport Corporation.
Among others present in the meeting included Public Works (Building and Roads), Rao Narbir Singh, Urban Local Bodies Minister Kavita Jain, MLAs namely Umesh Aggarwal and Tejpal Tanwar, Chief Secretary DS Dhesi and senior officers.