From Cyber City To 'Kudagram': How Gurugram Is Drowning In Its Own Garbage

Gurugram, famous as the 'Cyber City', is losing its shine these days under heaps of garbage. The situation is so bad that people on social media are calling it 'Kudagram' (Garbage Village). Although corporation officials and the state government have been actively trying to improve the situation for the past month, more effort is still needed on the ground.

This is the situation even when the Municipal Corporation has a massive budget of Rs 350 crore for the city's sanitation, and there is no shortage of resources or manpower. Despite this, the city's ranking in the national cleanliness survey has been disappointing. The biggest reason for this problem is the lenient attitude of corporation officials towards the private agencies that are not doing their jobs properly.

Agencies Acting On A Whim, People Are Suffering

The carelessness of these agencies is such that the goal of 100 per cent garbage collection from the city's nearly 550,000 homes and businesses remains unfulfilled. Four new agencies that started work recently were supposed to use 400 vehicles, but fewer than 200 are actually on the roads.

The result is that garbage is not being collected regularly from about 50 per cent of homes, and people are forced to throw rotting garbage on the streets, increasing the risk of diseases.

Major Flaws In The System

Segregation Failed: The system for separating wet and dry waste at home has not been implemented, causing all the mixed waste to end up at the Bandhwari landfill.

Crisis at Bandhwari Landfill: Waste processing at Bandhwari has stopped, and a mountain of 1.3 million tonnes of garbage has already piled up there.

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This problem is not just limited to Old Gurugram; even the new and posh sectors are littered with garbage. Residents say that the sanitation system of this nationally and internationally famous city has completely collapsed.

The Truth About Gurugram's Garbage (In Numbers)

- 1,200 tonnes garbage generated daily from Gurugram.

-  1,000 tonnes garbage that reaches Bandhwari from the neighboring city of Faridabad.

-  10+ agencies involved in garbage collection.

- 250+ garbage vulnerable points (places where garbage is regularly dumped) in the city.

- Rs 12.63 Crore costs of the tender, yet the work remains incomplete.

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