India, Oct. 14 -- The board of Gurugram Metri Rail Ltd (GMRL) on Monday approved the construction of a 1.8km metro spur from Sector 5 to Gurugram Railway Station at a cost of Rs.454 crore, officials said. The spur will form part of the Gurugram Railway Station-Bhondsi metro line, being developed by the Haryana Mass Rail Transport Corporation (HMRTC), the parent body of GMRL.

Chander Shekhar Khare, chief executive officer of GMRL and managing director of HMRTC, said the spur will connect with the Sector 5 station, where an interchange will be built. "The approval to this spur effectively means that work on the second metro project has also started apart from the Gurugram to Cyber Hub metro project, which is being executed presently," he s...