Chandigarh, Feb 23 (PTI) Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar on Thursday said he hopes that the construction work of the Gurugram Metro project will commence in 2023-24 fiscal and in the budget he proposed to take up three other metro links. Khattar said that the long pending Gurugram Metro project has been approved by the Public Investment Board in the central government and the final approval of the Union Cabinet is awaited. Khattar, who also holds the finance portfolio, presented a Rs 1.83 lakh crore budget for 2023-24 in the state assembly here. "I hope that construction work of the Gurugram Metro will commence in 2023-24," said Khattar. Further in the transport sector, Khattar said "we will be introducing city bus service in nine cities of Haryana having municipal corporations and also in Rewari city and augmenting the existing city bus service in Gurugram, Manesar and Faridabad."
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