As sanitation workers, domestic help, and daily workers, the majority of them hailing from West Bengal and Assam, packed their bags and left the city amid a police verification drive, a civic crisis appears to be prevailing in Gurugram.
The absence of these workers is evident almost everywhere, with uncollected garbage, dirty corridors is now what Gurugram has become all about in the last few days. Even the upscale society and gated apartments were not left untouched, as families struggled to manage household chores.
The police verification drive is being carried out to filter out alleged illegal Bangladeshi immigrants. Fearful of harassment and arbitrary detention, many have packed up overnight and left, disrupting core civic services and pushing both resident welfare associations (RWAs) and the Municipal Corporation of Gurugram (MCG) into crisis mode.
What began as a law enforcement exercise has left the city grappling with a civic crisis, revealing how deeply the city’s daily life depends on workers who are otherwise invisible.
“We’ve had no garbage collection for the last two weeks,” said Manav Singh, a resident of Palam Vihar. “Our sanitation agency says most of its employees have left due to the police crackdown. We’re now dealing with overflowing bins and stinking corridors. It’s a complete breakdown,” he was further quoted by the Hindustan Times.
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While there is no official data on how many workers left Gurugram in the last few days, district officials estimate that over 100,000 migrants from states like West Bengal and Assam live in Gurugram. The humanitarian crisis is expected to last longer as more workers are likely to leave the city amid the crackdown.