A metro corridor becomes real in stages: proposal, detailed project report, sanction, tenders, construction, opening. This one is still early in that list, and the difference matters if you are planning a commute around it.
What is actually being proposed
The plan reported in August 2026 extends the Airport Express Line (the Orange Line that already runs to Yashobhoomi, Dwarka Sector 25) south-west into Gurugram, ending at Rajiv Chowk on the Delhi–Jaipur highway.
The corridor is described as fully underground for its entire length, which is the main reason for the cost. Underground metro is roughly three to four times more expensive per kilometre than elevated track, and it is also slower to build.
- Length: about 20 kmRoughly 8 km inside Delhi and 12 km inside Gurugram, reported as underground end to end.
- Cost: around Rs 13,500 croreThe figure quoted for the merged alignment in the draft detailed project report.
- Journey time: about 25 minutesThe number in the headlines. It is a planning estimate for the new corridor, not a tested timetable.
- Built by: DMRC with HMRTCDelhi Metro Rail Corporation prepared the report; Haryana Mass Rapid Transport Corporation handles the Gurugram side.
Which stations are coming
The merged alignment adds five new underground stations after Yashobhoomi, two in Delhi and three in Gurugram.
Worth knowing: earlier reporting on the pre-merger alignment listed a different set of stops, including Dhul Siras, Bharthal, Mollahera and Udyog Vihar. Those names still circulate in coverage. The station list below is the one attached to the current, reworked plan, and it can change again before sanction.
- Yashobhoomi (Dwarka Sector 25)The existing Airport Express terminus. The new corridor starts here rather than adding a station.
- Bijwasan — DelhiFirst new stop, near the Bijwasan rail corridor in south-west Delhi.
- Kapashera — DelhiThe last Delhi station before the corridor crosses into Haryana.
- Sector 22 — GurugramEntry point into Gurugram, close to the Udyog Vihar and Palam Vihar side of the city.
- IFFCO Chowk — GurugramA busy existing node on the Yellow Line and the corridor's most useful connection.
- Rajiv Chowk — GurugramThe terminus, on NH-48 near the Delhi–Jaipur highway junction.
Which interchanges it creates
This is the part that changes how people actually travel, and it is also the part the published reporting is thinnest on. The draft project report has not made a confirmed interchange list public, so treat the connections below as what the alignment implies rather than as officially announced interchanges.
The clearest one is IFFCO Chowk. It is an existing Yellow Line station, so a new Airport Express platform there would give riders a direct swap between the airport corridor and the Huda City Centre–Samaypur Badli line without going through central Delhi.
Yashobhoomi is the other confirmed junction, simply because the corridor begins there on the existing Airport Express. At the Gurugram end, Sector 22 and Rajiv Chowk sit close to the Gurugram Metro corridor now under construction, which is why coverage keeps describing this as an eventual network link rather than a standalone line. Whether those turn into physical interchanges depends on the final alignment.
When does work start, and when would it finish?
Neither date exists yet. No construction start has been announced and no opening year has been committed to, because the project has not been sanctioned.
The current status is that DMRC originally pitched two separate ways of pushing the Airport Express into Gurugram. The Union Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs asked for an alignment change, the two options were merged into one, and the reworked draft report reached the Haryana side on 19 June 2026. The final call now sits with the ministry.
The idea itself is not new. It was proposed around 2015, received in-principle approval in 2016, was shelved, and was revived in 2025. That history is the strongest reason to read the 25-minute headline as an intention rather than a schedule.
For a realistic sense of scale: after sanction a corridor still needs funding approval, tenders, land and utility clearances, and then tunnelling. Comparable underground stretches in the Delhi Metro network have taken several years from sanction to opening. Any specific year quoted today for this corridor is someone's estimate, not an announced target.
The other routes still on the table
This corridor is not the only Delhi–Gurugram link being considered. A separate 8.4 km spur from Rezangla Chowk in Palam Vihar to Dwarka Sector 21, estimated at Rs 1,851 crore, was cleared by the Haryana Cabinet in 2022 and is still under its own review.
Multiple competing proposals for the same broad journey is normal at this stage. It is also a reminder that the corridor that finally gets built may not be the one in today's headline.
What this changes for a rider today
Nothing, yet. Until a line opens, the Delhi–Gurugram trip stays what it is: Yellow Line to Huda City Centre, or Airport Express plus a change, with the interchange decisions that come with it.
It does say something about where the network is heading. More corridors mean more journeys where the hard part is not the route but the changes inside it — knowing which interchange to take and when to get up. That is the problem MetroPing was built around, and when a corridor like this actually opens, its stations and interchanges get added to the app's route data before anything else changes.
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A route on paper, not a corridor with a date.
The alignment, station list, and cost are reported. The construction start and opening year are not — and the plan has been shelved once before.
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