The Gurugram Metro Rail Restricted (GMRL) has sought 3,000 sq. metres (sqm) land from the Haryana Shahari Vikas Pradhikaran (HSVP) in Dundahera village to assemble an influence substation that can present electrical energy to town’s metro community, officers stated on Sunday.
“The electrical energy division has recognized the land in Dundahera … This substation will present energy to metro stations and for operating the metro rail,” stated a senior GMRL official, including that the substation shall be used to supply electrical energy to the railway community from Millennium Metropolis centre to Cyber Hub.
In accordance with GMRL, the substation shall be linked to the Haryana Vidyut Prasaran Nigam (HVPN)’s 220kVA energy substation in Sector 20.
In a letter written on February 12 requesting for granting the land, GMRL’s chief undertaking officer Gabdu Ram Chaudhary said that when the land is acquired, the electrical energy sub station design shall be ready and the tender course of for tendering can begin.
Requested over the matter, a senior HSVP official, nonetheless, instructed PR that they haven’t but acquired the request for plot requirement in Dundahera but when there’s any such requirement for the metro undertaking, it is going to taken up on precedence.
“Gurugram metro is a essential infrastructure undertaking and we’re guaranteeing that its necessities associated to land and different civil works are taken up on precedence,” he stated, including that the authority has already transferred land for establishing a casting yard and metro depot to the metro authority.
The GMRL, in the meantime, has additionally sought half a hectare of land, adjoining to Transport Nagar, on lease because the authority is setting up a casting yard at this location.
HSVP officers stated that the authority has already supplied 5.23 hectares in Sector 33 to the GMRL for the metro depot in August, 2025. This half an hectare is extra to the 5.23 hectare already given to GMRL.
Officers stated the metro company has additionally sought land from the HSVP for development of metro stations alongside the metro line within the Part-1, Sector 20, Udyog Vihar.
