Gurgaon News

The Corporation has in any case planned the 14.47-kilometre Gurgaon stretch along malls to ensure higher footfall for both the Metro line and the commercial outlets.

M-G Road station: What's special?

• Escalators on both sides of entry and exit points of foot overbridge

• 1,500 sq m parking space

• Viaduct on stretch made with different curvature to absorb sound waves and reduce noise pollution

• 14.47-km Qutub Minar to Gurgaon corridor slated to be commissioned by January 2010

• 90% civic work, 70% track -laying work complete

• Line will have 10 stations

• 1.6 lakh passengers per day expected on the line by 2011

• Delhi Metro plans to construct compatible foot overbridges for its other stations on phase-II lines, like on the Indraprastha-Noida corridor

• AIIMS station, which has two hospitals on either side of the road, might also get a foot overbridge

If this commuter circulation plan proves successful, officials said Delhi Metro will consider connecting more stations to such commercial and residential hubs.

Source: The Indian Express Metro to connect malls with stations in Gurgaon, Noida

The Haryana State Industrial & Infrastructure Development Corporation (HSIIDC) has asked over 1,200 units in the industrial belt to pay enhanced rates for the land acquired to build the township.

And the amount comes to a substantial Rs 39 lakh per acre.

Worse, they have a 30-day deadline to meet.

The HSIIDC order follows the Supreme Court's recent directive to pay enhanced compensation rates to farmers for the land acquired.

In 1994, the government had acquired their land at a rate of Rs 4.5 lakh per acre to set up the IMT. The farmers approached the court, seeking a hike in compensation to Rs 15 lakh per acre.

Industrialists are not happy with the corporation order.

They say that whereas the court asked the corporation to recover Rs 10 lakh per acre, the HSIIDC is demanding Rs 39 lakh by adding interest from 1994 and other charges.

"These notices are like death orders. Industrialists already affected by the meltdown are not in position to bear this additional burden. Many may move out," said Manoj Tyagi, president of IMT Industries Association.

"We do not understand why HSIIDC is demanding Rs 39 lakh when the SC fixed it at Rs 10 lakh per acre. We are going to meet corporation officials on Tuesday," he added.

Amina Sherwani, who runs an IT company in Sector 5, said the corporation had no right to ask for additional cost of land as it had failed to provide basic amenities.

Harbhajan Singh, DGM of Honda Scooters & Motorcycles, said it was not the correct time to serve such notices.

"Just a couple of months back, we paid Rs 4 crore as enhancement cost. We will examine the notices legally and then decide on the payment," Singh added.

Divya Kamal, deputy general manager of HSIIDC, said the government was helpless as the notices were issued on the Supreme Court's directions.

"We can only offer to accept payment in instalments, subject to approval by our managing director. HSIIDC has paid additional compensation of Rs 306 crore to farmers at the rate of Rs 10 lakh per acre till 2009. We need to recover the money from the industrialists, which is the part of the allotment conditions," Kamal said.

A Imagination View...

and out of the book- to not provide information .This even if you are applying under the RTI Act.

Hundreds of application filed under the RTI Act are pending responses in various departments, but the departments concerned are happily playing the pass-the-parcel with them.

There are numerous cases where teh applicants, not getting the required information, have had to approach the Chief Information Commissioner (CIC), Haryana, G Madhavan, against the officers for not providing the information sought.

But the CIC's orders to the babus to fix their act, too, have met the same fate as the RTI applications.

The situations has come to such a pass that the city;s residents have started believing that although the RTI Act is a good

instrument to eliminate corruption and empower people, it won't amount to much if things continue the way they are.

Ask S.P Nagrath, president, Nagrik Adhikar Manch. He had applied for information regarding the status of repairs of some of

the roads in Gurgaon from the Estate Officer I and II, Huda, but he didn't get any reply from them. He then filed the appeal

before the first Appellate Authority-cum-Administrator, Huda against these two Estate Officers and sought the information.

Source: Metro Now, 27/June/2009 By Yogesh

Thereafter, they had demanded a strong security system.

But the residents continue to feel vulnerable in the absence of any concrete steps.

Unitech developed the colony and looks after the security of the colony as well as other welfare services and collects maintenance charges from residents in lieu of that.

In several letters, written to the management from time to time, the office bearers of the residents'welfare association (RWA), South City-II, have urged them to bolster the security set up in the area,and look into the verification of the security guards deployed in the colony.

The RWA has also urged the authority to check whether the security guards are competent enough and well trained.

"This is the big concern today," said Mukesh Khanna, vice president of the RWA.

"These security guards could not even catch the culprits who escaped from the front gate even as women kept on screaming,"added Khanna.

Incidents of crime in the colony have been consistently on the rise but the local police have remained a mute spectator.

"We have held a meeting with senior officials in the management, apprising them of the security issue," said S.N.Bharadwaj, president of the RWA.

"We are likely to hold a meeting with the RWA office bearers in this regardand will discuss all these points there.

In the past as well, we have always addressed the issues that the RWA office bearers have brought before us," said Col (retd) S. Bhati, security incharge, Unitech management.

Former Gurgaon Police Commissioner Mohinder Lal had recently put a question mark on the veracity and services provided by private security agencies in the city.

"This would enable completion of the Metro rail service to Gurgaon before the Commonwealth Games in 2010. It would help commuters from Gurgaon to Delhi and adjoining areas of the NCR (National Capital Region)," she added.

With a view to inducing transparency in the functioning of HUDA and fix accountability and time frame for the officials supposed to redress public grievances, the new HUDA administrator and former deputy commissioner Deepti Umashanakar organised `HUDA Efficient Service Camp' at her office here today.

A camp to redress residents' grievances in progress at HUDA office in Gurgaon on Tuesday.

The camp, where as many as 85 complainants turned up to get their grievances redressed, was a sort of modern avatar of the open darbar. An e-mail address (hudaopendarbar@gmail.com) had been provided to enable the residents to register their problems online.

"The action taken on the residents' complaints will be e-mailed to them and also uploaded onto the department website, www.huda.nic.in," said Deepti Umashankar while talking to The Tribune after the camp. She added that from now on, such camps would be organised every Tuesday.

The administrator asserted that the underlying idea behind the move was to streamline HUDA's complaint redressal system and redress the maximum number of complaints at the local level.

"Apart from helping redress the residents' grievances promptly, we also hope to evolve a self-monitoring mechanism through these camps," she maintained.

An estate officer, a district town planner and several other officials of HUDA's engineering wing and other departments concerned were also present on the occasion to assist the administrator in prompt redressal of residents' grievances.

The move elicited a positive response from residents' bodies of HUDA sectors in the city. K.L.Chawla, senior vice-president of the Residents Welfare Association, Sector-4, welcomed the new system and said it was a step in the right direction, provided the decisions taken at the camp were properly implemented.

As the 15 fire tenders available with the Gurgaon fire department proved sadly inadequate, the administration had to turn to the Air Force, the fire department of Rewari and some major industrial units nearby for help.

The picture only becomes grimmer. In a city with a population of over 20 lakh, there are three fire stations Sector 29, Bheemnagar and Sector 37.

"Since the formation of of Municipal Corporation of Gurgaon last year we have been demanding at least two more fire stations including one in Manesar. Three stations are not enough to take care of the entire city but nothing has happened till date," said H C Sihag, fire station officer, Sector 29.

Source: Times Of India Gurgaon falls short on fire safety front

The other and a rather major one is the complete absence of Traffic Police in the area.

"The situation is getting worse day byday. I always leave early for my office to avoid the chaotic lanes of Sadar Bazar," said Shiv, a technical leader.

Sadar Bazar happens to be one of the busiest places in Old Gurgaon.

Packed with shops and a large number of people who visit them, it is almost impossible to commute through the congested lanes.

However, it is a shame that while the common people are experiencing such adversities, no traffic personnel can be seen around to manage the traffic.

It has been almost 25 years since Sectors 7 and 4, which come under the Haryana Urban Development Authority (HUDA), were established in Old Gurgaon.

However, a proper traffic management system is yet to be set up here. "There are no `traffic rules' here. People follow their own rules," says Y.P.Khanna,who has been an Old Gurgaon resident for more than 45 years. Due to the negligence of the state government, the whole identity and image of a traffic policeman in the eyes of the common people is deteriorating.

Locals atOld Gurgaon hardly care to wear a helmet while riding a two-wheeler or the seat belt while driving a car.

"No one ever checks," said Pramod,a resident of Sector 7 Extension.

The absence of traffic personnel is not the only issue.

One would hardly come across any traffic signals, warning boards, indicators or pointers in Old Gurgaon.

Railway Road, which runs from Gurgaon ISBT to Gurgaon Railway Station, has the maximum number of vehicles plying every day.However, the entire road has no traffic signals or warning boards.The Sectors 4 and 7 crossing thus, inevitably, becomes an accident-prone site. The complete absence of traffic police makes the crossing even more chaotic, especially in the evening, when people are coming home from work. "It is true that here wehave less number of traffic policemen but, even those who are there, are usually busy amongst themselves," said Prakash, who runs a tea stall at the Sectors 4 and 7 crossing.

"I'm sick of this place.What the government is doing is collecting taxes," said Dharmender, who lives near Shiv Murti. Obviously, Old Gurgaon is not just old in its name; the whole system here is rotten.

As it is the roads in Old Gurgaon are not broad and well built as the ones in areas like Sushant Lok or IFFCO Chowk.

However, the last straw comes from the shopkeepers and slums. They occupy half of the already narrow roads.

The chances of accidents are thus high in Old Gurgaon.

Since the state government seems to be making no efforts to improve its traffic management, even the people have become laid back and are putting their lives at risk.

Concrete remedial steps are required from the government.

FACT FILE ■ Sadar Bazar happens to be one of the busiest places in Old Gurgaon. Packed with shops and a large number of visitors, it is almost impossible to commute through the congested lanes.

■ Locals at Old Gurgaon hardly care to wear a helmet while riding a two-wheeler or the seat belt while driving a car.

Gurgaon's character has undergone this sudden change because of the legal effect given by the Punjab and Haryana High Court to two notifications issued by the Haryana Forest Department in 1997.

Gurgaon is not an exception. Keeping it company are many areas of Faridabad, Mewat, Narnaul, Mahendragarh, Rewari, Panchkula, Ambala and Yamunanagar districts, which are now "forests".

The Forest Department issued two notifications on November 27 and 28, 1997, under Sections 3 and 4 of the Punjab Land Preservation Act (PLPA), 1990, which banned cutting of trees or timber in the areas lying on the north (left) side of the metalled and unmetalled road connecting Chandigarh, Panchkula, Ramgarh, Raipur Rani, Naraingarh, Sadhaura, Bilaspur, Chhachhrauli, Dadupur and reaching the Yamuna near Nathanpur and Lakar villages; the western (right) side of the Delhi-Ballabgarh road and the northern (right) side of the Ballabgarh-Sohna road; the western side of the Delhi-Alwar road; the entire revenue estate of Gurgaon, Ferozepur Jhirka, Sohna, Pataudi, Narnaul, Mahendragarh, Rewari, Bawal and Kosli tehsils; and the areas lying on the western side of the Dadri-Bhiwani-Tosham-Hisar road.

A Division Bench comprising Chief Justice TS Thakur and Justice Surya Kant held last month that all areas covered by these notifications were "forest land" for the purposes of the Indian Forest Act, 1927, and the Forest (Conservation) Act, 1980.

Justice Surya Kant, writing for the Bench, further directed that these areas shall not be used for non-forest purposes, including major or minor minerals.

With this, the mining will come to an end in virtually the entire state, barring certain pockets, affecting the on-going development projects as well as pushing the cost of construction material.

Not only mining, all construction works, including those of HUDA, will not be legally permissible in the areas covered by the notifications. The judgment is, however, silent about the fate of those non-forest projects, which have already been executed in these areas after 1997. In Panchkula district, the immediate effect of the judgment will be not only on thousands engaged in the mining and stone-crushing operations, but also on Panchkula extension planned by HUDA and a colony proposed by the DLF.

Source: The Tribune HC Order Lands Govt In A Quandary

If the plan is approved and implemented, the Forest Department would be able to force the private owners of forestland in the Aravalis to grow trees and vegetation, which is not a compulsory activity till now.

This was disclosed by the new conservator of forests (south circle), A. K. Singh.

Singh has replaced R. P.Balwan,former member of the Supreme Court appointed Centrally Empowered Committee (CEC). Singh said that damage has already been done to the Arvalis due to nonforest activities and soil erosion.

Forestland owned byprivate developers and individuals comprises almost 50 per cent of the total recorded forest cover in the Aravalis. Singh said that his department was also going to propose a rehabilitation plan for the areas where mining is going on in the work plan.

"The non-government land, closed under Sections 4 & 5 of Punjab Land Preservation Act (PLPA) 1900, should be treated as forestland only and, therefore, has to be rehabilitated equally on the lines of the recorded forestland. The SC has ruled that even the forestland on which either the notification has expired or has not been re-notified should be treated as forestland. The private land owners are required to seek permission from the forest department for any nonforestation activity they plan on their land,"Singh clarified.

He also plans to introduce integrated watershed development plan (IWDP) as well as forest development agencies (FDAs) in all the districts that have the Aravalis, to increase green cover on these hills.

IWDP exists only in Mewat region till now.FDAs would be formed to introduce social forestry and conservation of forests."I am also going to take up the issue of greenery with private developers as well. We would also talk to the Haryana Urban Development Authority on the same issue," Singh added.

Additional infrastructure, including 111.9 km-long high-tension lines, 16.28 km-long low-tension lines and distribution transformers of a capacity of 98.453 kVA costing around Rs 20 crore, is required in the DLF colonies.

The survey has pointed out that inadequate infrastructure provided by a number of builders is one of the main reasons behind unscheduled power cuts in some areas of the city.

The issue has been discussed by various agencies, including the HVPN, the DHBVN, the Town and Country Planning Department and builders. They have been asked to augment the infrastructure for power distribution. The DHBVN has been asked to get the infrastructure augmented.

DLF had planned and agreed to set 66 kV substations at three locations, but only one substation has so far been set up at Q Block. Other developers like Unitech, APL, Ambience Infrastructure, Sheetal International and Vipul Infrastructure had also agreed to set up 66 kV substations, but are yet to do so.

The directions have been given under section 144 of the CrPC.

"The labourers come here in search of livelihood and there is a possibility that anti-social elements may try to hide themselves in the garb of job-seekers.

Such anti-social elements indulge in nefarious activities. So, it has become necessary for the contractors to report about the labourers engaged by them for conducting police verification."

Women, children, senior citizens and corporate executives participated in the run organized bu Running and Living infotainment near leisure Valley Park in Gurgaon's Sector 29 on Sunday

For hundreds of Gurgaon residents the reason this time was a run to promote the cause of healthy environment.

Leisure Valley in Gurgaon was abuzz with activity as early as 6.00 am as hundreds including women, children, senior citizens and corporate executives came together to participate in the 5-km and 10-km runs.

About 50 per cent participants were women and children, who ran in the 200 metre dashes organised separately for them.

Organised by Running and Living infotainment to commemorate its first anniversary, the runs in Sector 29 also witnessed the participation of executives from IBM, HP, Mudra Communication, Makemytrip.com and others.

A few teams from some companies also took part in team building activities along with the run.

The 53-year-old former bank official, Novel Lavasa, said she had started returned to running "thanks to events such as these".

"I used to run long distance in the early nineties but gave it up later on," she said.

"My motivation has returned now and I have started with running for one kilometre. I want to hit the 5-km mark gradually."

And the man who helped the likes of Lavasa put on their running shoes is upbeat about his venture.

Source: Hindustan Times Gurgaon runs over carbon footprints

When the Gurgaon Municipal Corporation came into being in June last, the residents were promised that it would change the face of the city.

However, more than a year after its inception, the MC has not been able to deliver the goods it was supposed to.

When the MC was established, the areas which were under the jurisdiction of HUDA, HSIIDC and Gurgaon's erstwhile Municipal Council till then were transferred to it. Besides the 58 sectors of Gurgaon, these areas also included those specified by the notification under the Gurgaon's Master Plan 2021.

However, till date, the MC has even failed to take over the provision of essential services like water supply, sewerage, roads, parks and streetlights in most areas under its jurisdiction from the other government agencies like HUDA, Public Health Department and PWD etc.

As far as the outlook of the millennium city's civic body is concerned, it does not have a website or even a logo to call its own.

As of now, the MC authorities are carrying out ward-wise survey of the city. Apart from it, its functioning seems to have failed to take off.

Source: The Tribune 1 Year Gone, But Gurgaon Municipal Corporation Fails To Take Off

The local industry captains have accused the Haryana State Infrastructure and Industrial Development Corporation (HSIIDC) of harassing the small and medium industrialists, imposing exorbitant penalties for small violations, delaying routine works like execution of title deeds for years and several other serious matters.

A number of local industrialists, assembled under the aegis of a joint forum comprising members of the Chamber of Industries of Udyog Vihar, Udyog Vihar Industries Association, Haryana Industries Association and Gurgaon Udyog Association staged a silent protest demonstration to press for the redress of their aforesaid grievances here today.

The protesters, carrying placards, marched from the CII convention hall to the HSIIDC building located in Udyog Vihar Phase-V here today. They also submitted a memorandum addressed to the Haryana Chief Minister to the HSIIDC DGM.

Later, talking to The Tribune, Col (retd) Raj Singla, the president of the Chamber of Industries of Udyog Vihar, maintained that they had been apprising the authorities concerned of their grievances for a long time, but to no avail.

Making startling revelations, Col Singla said instead of helping the small entrepreneurs, the HSIIDC had even issued letters to several banks, asking them not to finance the industrialists without their NOC.

He said there were a large number of plot owners who were yet to get the title deed of their plots even as many as 30 years of allotment and having paid all installments.

"The plots were allotted to us on freehold basis. But we are made to pay a heavy amount to the HSIIDC in the name of leasing fee," he asserted, alleging that they were made to pay as much as Rs 300 to Rs 600 per square metre penal rate in nearly all cases, as against the specified fee of Rs 15 and Rs 30 per square metre.

Col Singla further pointed out that they were made to pay exorbitant amounts even for small violation, much to their harassment.

The industry captain demanded that as a Municipal Corporation had been set up in Gurgaon and the development of Udyog Vihar been completed, it should be handed over to the Municipal Corporation.

According to sources in the corporation, a report relating to allocating of wards has been sent for approval to the Haryana Government, through the deputy commissioner,after conducting a survey.

The long pending demand of Gurgaon residents of having a corporation would be met as soon as government approval comes in.The elections for ward councillors will follow.

The general elections delayed the process. Soon, the government will return the approved file and would take over civic welfare jobs.

"We have sent the file to Deepti Umashankar, Deputy Commissioner, Gurgaon.

However, I have no idea where the file is pending at the moment," said Rajiv Sharma, MCG Commissioner. Once the government accepts the survey report, it would issue a notice, he added. Gurgaon will proba bly have 31 wards, he said.

The Municipal Corporation, which came into being in June 2008, is being run without any wards and councillors till date.

Prior to the corporation, it was a municipal committee,which looked after welfare matters, mainly in the old city.

In the sectors developed by the Haryana Urban Development Authority (HUDA), which is the main housing developing agency in the city, as well as in builders' areas, welfare work would be maintained bythe corporation.

However,residents of the city are quite upset as many civic welfare projects in the city got delayed in the process of shifting them from the HUDA to the corporation. "It is very irritating,"said R.S.Raghav,president of the Residents Welfare Association (RWA), Sector 15-I.

The corporation claims to have done a lot of development in the past year. It has written several letters to the Haryana government. The corporation has its own areas in Old Gurgaon. It is already in the process of surveying the new areas, which are expected to come up under it.

"Nothing has been done ever since the corporation came up.

On the contrary,HUDA authorities have delayed many pending projects on the excuse of shifting them to the corpora tion,"said Dharam Sagar,chairman of the Federation of Residents Welfare Association of Urban Estates. "I do understand the public wrath, though I have taken appropriate steps to expedite the process and have forwarded the survey report further.

However, the elections delayed the matter. It is hoped that the wards would be ready soon," said Rajiv Sharma, Commissioner,MCG.

Financial Commissioner and Principal Secretary (Tourism) Keshni Anand Arora had put a proposal to conduct a shopping festival on the pattern of the Dubai festival in a meeting on May 22 with the mall and hotel owners of the district to attract foreign tourists to Gurgaon. He said efforts will be made to provide tourists all those things that were not available in Delhi to attract foreign tourists during Commonwealth Games in 2010. Besides, cultural programmes and sports activities for the entertainment of children would also be made available during the shopping festival, he added.

The consumer will no longer be at the mercy of the "English Wine & Beer" outlets that have sprung up all over the country along the roadside, their contents warmed by the bracing 45º winds flowing in freely through their full-length open counters.

The first of these shops was set up in Spencer's in Gurgaon about a year ago. Now Global Wines & Spirits, a liquor importer and distributor, has made a strong entry into this segment. They have already opened three shops in Gurgaon and one in Faridabad and two more are coming up shortly. So far they have chosen Reliance Super and SRS Value Bazar supermarkets, spread strategically across Gurgaon's prime residential areas. Each shop is located in an area within the supermarket specially dedicated for this purpose.

The licence issued to these shops allows them to sell only imported spirits and beers (foreign made foreign liquor, to give bureaucracy its due), but makes an exception in the case of wine, allowing the sale of both foreign and Indian wines. This is good news for the wine trade, and Indian vintners in particular. Buyers of wine require time to browse in pleasant surroundings, and these new shops are surely the answer.

The important point is that wine is stored in air conditioned space and customers are attended to by trained and friendly staff. Another important advantage is that the customer can carry his purchases inconspicuously along with groceries and shampoos, and so avoid the possibility of being set upon by snatchers riding motor cycles. Don't be surprised then if you see me walking up to the wine counter seeking advice: "I have bought some lauki (long gourd) and karela (bitter gourd) for lunch. Can you suggest a good rosé to go with it?"

Why has Delhi lagged behind in adopting the shop-in-a-shop concept? The amazing answer is that licences given in Delhi to such shops allow them to sell only beer and, just wait for this, breezers. Yes, breezers. It is unlikely that a licencee will find it worthwhile to rent expensive space in a supermarket just for selling beer and breezers.

The factory owners havebeen fighting with the civic authority under the leadership of the Gurgaon Industrial Association (GIA) for the development of civic amenities in the area. The sewage system, drainage, internal roads and parks are in a pathetic state. The internal roads get badly affected every rainy season.

According to GIA office bearers, they have taken up the matter with the MCG many times. The entry and exit points of MG Road are still in a bad state.Even a light shower leads to water logging.

"We fail to understand where the crores of rupees sanctioned for development go every year?" said Dharam Sagar, a factory owner."We came to know that the MCG has got some funds to be used for civic development here about a year ago. However, there is no action till date.We have held two rounds of meetings with MCG Commissioner, Rajiv Sharma, in this regard," added Sagar.

"The GIA has held several meetings with the MCG Commissioner in the recent months and requested him to sanction work for the improvement of the colony parks, roads and streetlights," said Kishan Chand Papreja, honorary general secretary, GIA.

The industry owners demand development here as a right in return for the revenue they give to the government, especially the Department of Industry.It came as news to the office bearers of the GIA that the MCG has got a fund of approximately Rs two-and-half crore under the local area development fund.

"We held a meeting with the MCG Commissioner in this regard and are expecting proper execution of the fund," added Papreja. He said that the Commissioner has assured that roads and parks will be developed.

"The internal roads are in a poor state.We expect the corporation to look into the problem as the rainy season is round the corner. Some steps should be taken before these roads go from bad to worse," said Bishan Mehrish, secretary of the GIA.

However, Rajiv Sharma, Commissioner, MCG, denied that fund was specifically for the IDC, he admitted the colony was included in the corporation list where development for parks could be conducted. "The fund is for the area coming under the corporation in the entire city.We have awarded the contract for repair of boundary walls, etc as per the need of the locality, one of which is the IDC," said the Commissioner.

However, export figure of the last financial year is expected to be announced in the first week of June.

In 2006-07, the software export from Gurgaon was Rs 15,000 crore while it was Rs 10,700 crore in 2005-06.

"Gurgaon is fast emerging as an IT hub and there are about 400 IT and IT-Enabled services (ITES) companies operating in the district," Deputy Commissioner Deepti Umashankar said.

Umashankar said the city has emerged as a preferred destination of big companies like HCL, Wipro, Genpact, TCS, Microsoft, Oracle. They have expanded their business and now have number of units in Gurgaon, she added.

"The IT Industry in the city is growing at a much faster pace than the national average. In order to give boost to IT industry, a regional IT industry promotion office has been set up in Gurgaon," Deputy Commissioner Deepti Umashankar said.

She said the Rs 681-crore Qutub Minar- Gurgaon Metro Corridor, which is likely to be completed by January 2010, will give boost to IT and ITES companies in Gurgaon.

The length of this Metro Rail Link is 7.08 km and it will have five stations--Garden Estate, Sikenderpur, DT City Centre, IFFCO Chowk and Sushant Lok. This would further improve connectivity between National Capital Delhi and Gurgaon.