News: Gurugram Metro Cost Revised to Rs 10,266.54 Crore-19-05-2026
The Haryana cabinet on Monday approved a revised cost of Rs 10,266.54 crore for the Gurugram Metro Rail project, up from Rs 5,452.72 crore. The meeting in Chandigarh was chaired by chief minister Nayab Singh Saini.
Officials attributed the escalation to inflation between 2019 and 2023, revised GST rates, independent operational requirements for the Millennium City Centre-Cyber City corridor, a full-fledged depot, additional rolling stock, changes in the RRTS alignment and the addition of a spur to Gurugram railway station. They said the revised structure includes Rs 7,098.70 crore for cost escalation and GST changes, Rs 947.06 crore for additional independent corridor infrastructure and Rs 454.32 crore for the spur.
The 28.50-kilometre corridor with 27 stations was set out in a detailed project report by RITES Limited. The cabinet first approved it on August 13, 2020, and the centre cleared it later.
The cabinet also approved a supplementary report on integration with the Rapid Metro. The government said the Gurugram Metro is now envisaged as an independent project after changes in the integration scenario. The report provides for a depot and related facilities on 22.86 hectares of government land in Sector 33.
A second supplementary report, for a 1.80-kilometre spur from Sector 5 station to Gurugram railway station, was cleared to link metro and rail services.
On financing, the cabinet agreed that the whole soft loan component will come from the World Bank. Under the original cost, the soft loan was Rs 2,688.57 crore, with Rs 1,075.42 crore proposed from the World Bank and Rs 1,613.14 crore from the European Investment Bank (EIB). The government said repeated delays in confirmation from the EIB led the Gurugram Metro Rail Limited (GMRL) board to decide on October 13, 2025 that the EIB portion could also be financed by the World Bank if delays continued. The chief minister approved this on December 12, 2025.
The administrative secretary of the town and country planning department was authorised as nodal officer to sign agreements and documents. The chief minister was authorised to approve modifications needed during consultations with the centre or implementation.
