Verve People
Text by Sharanya Deepak
When driving through Gurgaon (now Gurugram), tall glass skyscrapers and dense corporate conclaves capture all the attention. The city, one of the fastest-growing in India, is part of Delhi’s National Capital Region and home to more than 2.7 million residents. It has seen rapid growth in population and urbanisation in the last twenty years, and professional workers from the capital and other parts of India have come to work in the city’s burgeoning corporate parks. Accelerated and unplanned building had led to felled trees and compromised green spaces as well as an unsystematic waste disposal system, creating a city that appears to gather economic gain but remains unsustainable to live in. IAmGurgaon, a citizen-led initiative made up entirely of Gurgaon residents, decided to deal with these problems…