India, Sept. 18 -- The Haryana government has asked the Union housing and urban affairs ministry to consider building Phase 2 of the Gurugram Metro as an underground corridor instead of an elevated one, citing severe congestion and multiple bottlenecks along the proposed alignment from Sector 9 to Cyber Hub, officials said.

The state's urban local bodies minister, Rao Narbir Singh, in a letter dated September 16 to Union housing and urban affairs minister Manohar Lal Khattar, urged that the alignment be taken underground from Sector 9 through Sectors 4 and 5, Palam Vihar, Sector 23 and finally to Cyber Hub.

When asked about the matter, D Thara, chairperson, GMRL and under secretary, ministry of housing and urban affairs said that she wi...