India, Dec. 24 -- The Gurugram metro rail limited (GMRL) board on Tuesday approved construction of an underpass at Krishna Chowk near Palam Vihar, which would be fundedby the Gurugram metropolitan development authority (GMDA).

The GMRL will construct only one underpass along the metro line and not undertake construction of four other underpasses at Railway road, sector 5 to Sheetla Mata road, Rezangla Chowk and at Sushil Aima road near Old Delhi Road as proposed earlier by GMDA.

A senior GMRL official said that the board approved construction of Krishna Chowk underpass as it was along the metro alignment. "We have also decided to expedite the contract for the second phase of the metro. However, the location of the last metro station at ...