Gurugram’s crumbling infrastructure, political apathy, and civic failures have drawn sharp criticism from businessman and columnist Suhel Seth, who described town as a “nationwide disgrace” and urged Delhi’s Lieutenant Governor to step in and restore order by means of a “non-hostile takeover.”
Talking at an Indian Specific occasion, Seth denounced Gurugram’s governance, highlighting its chaotic city sprawl, poor public companies, and absence of accountability. “We’ve extra liquor vends than functioning visitors lights. Extra bars than faculties,” he stated, slamming the native administration.
His remarks come within the wake of a lethal two-hour downpour earlier this month that killed a minimum of eight folks in Gurugram as a consequence of electrocution, open manholes, drowning, and highway accidents. The town, marketed as India’s “Millennium Metropolis,” got here to a standstill, with widespread flooding, visitors paralysis, and overflowing sewage strains exposing deep flaws in its infrastructure.
Seth pointed to the irony of calling Gurugram a wise metropolis whereas fundamental companies stay dysfunctional. “You possibly can’t have good cities with unsmart leaders,” he stated.
Former NITI Aayog CEO Amitabh Kant backed Seth’s criticism, declaring that Gurugram contributes extra tax to the Haryana authorities than all different cities mixed. “When you can’t keep Gurugram, it’s an enormous failure of governance,” Kant stated.
Seth later revealed on X (previously Twitter) that he obtained calls from Haryana officers after his remarks. “Credit score the place credit score is due,” he wrote, noting that each Rajeev Jaitly and Pradeep IAS contacted him to substantiate that CM Nayab Saini had taken notice and that motion was underway.
Nonetheless, the optics stay grim. The July rain deaths and flooded roads have intensified scrutiny on town’s civic failure. For a lot of residents, the collapse of Gurugram is not a seasonal inconvenience—it’s a recurring indictment of a metropolis constructed on actual property goals however drowned in neglect.
