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Gurgaon has survived without a municipal govt for four decades
- al2o3cr 11y agoFrom TFA: "Between one industrial park and another industrial park are empty areas that are not safe areas at all,” Rajagopalan says. Sewage trucks will frequently bypass treatment plants and dump their contents on public land, and while it poses a health hazard to nearby slums, public officials don’t have the resources to counter such infractions. In short, Gurgaon’s success story is confined to an archipelago of private compounds populated by those who can afford to live there. Yet the intro calls it a "strangely promising blueprint for urban development". o_O Also, the bit at the end leaves off the punchline - the major developers insist that if they just owned more land they'd be more inclined to provide better services. If only there was some way that an entire small region could be organized to provide services, maybe call it "a city government"...