India, Aug. 30 -- Construction for the Gurugram Metro will start from mid-September as the piling rig which is a crucial equipment for digging the foundation of metro pillars has been deployed by the contractor on Friday, said officials familiar with the matter.

The piling rig was unloaded in front of the Gurugram Metropolitan Development Authority (GMDA) office in Sector 44 near the terminating pillars of the Yellow line of Delhi metro. "The piling rig will start operation once the Bhoomi poojan of the project is carried out by the Haryana government. We expect the work to start in the next 15 to 20 days. This piling rig can move on its own and it has taken us seven days to bring this machine to Gururgam from Surat on a trailer," said a...