India, March 7 -- Haryana chief minister Nayab Singh Saini on Thursday directed the state irrigation department to remodel the Gurugram Water Supply Channel (GWS) Project, replacing the proposed open channel with a fully covered 70-kilometre pipeline. This change has significantly increased the project's cost from the initially estimated Rs.1,500 crore to Rs.3,000 crore, according to senior government officials present at the meeting.

The directions were issued during a review meeting on Gurugram's infrastructure at the PWD Guest House, attended by senior officials from the state government, Gurugram Metropolitan Development Authority (GMDA), Municipal Corporation of Gurugram (MCG), and the irrigation department.

Pipeline aimed to reduc...