India, Oct. 13 -- The proposal to construct a 1.8-kilometre metro spur from Sector 5 to Gurugram Railway Station has been finalised and will soon be taken up by the Gurugram Metro Rail Limited (GMRL) for consideration. It will then be sent to the Haryana government and the Union Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs for final approval, officials said. Once approved, the spur will be included in the Phase 2 tender of the Gurugram Metro project.

Earlier, metro authorities had planned to connect the Sector 5 metro station to the railway station through a skywalk with escalators, but the state government decided in November last year to add a dedicated spur line instead.

According to a senior government official, a report submitted by the R...