GURUGRAM: The Municipal Corporation on Thursday imposed a Rs 25,000 penalty on a restaurant on Old Judicial Complex Road and a Rs 10,000 fine on a salon on Jharsa Road for allegedly littering, as the civic body continues market-level sanitation checks.
Officials said the Thursday action sits inside a wider push of inspections, cleanliness drives and outreach to traders. On 18 and 19 September, MCG issued 32 penalties totalling Rs 91,500 to shopkeepers in Islampur, Sikanderpur Furniture Market and Sadar Bazaar for allegedly dumping garbage outside their shops and failing to keep dustbins. That earlier round alone averaged close to Rs 2,860 per challan and concentrated on three busy commercial pockets rather than residential lanes.
Councillors join market walks
During the outreach, MCG additional commissioner Yash Jaluka and Ward 27 councillor Ashish Gupta walked through Sadar Bazaar and spoke to shopkeepers about keeping waste off the carriageway and stopping piles from building up against shop fronts. Separate cleanliness drives were held around Shani temple and the Daulatabad flyover crossing with residents and Ward 34 councillor Surekha Chauhan, and in Ward 22 with councillor Vikas Yadav. Bringing elected ward members into the walks is meant to put a local face on a rule that shopkeepers often treat as a street-sweeper problem rather than their own.
MCG spokesperson SS Rohilla said the campaigns are meant to discourage littering in public spaces and push residents and traders toward proper disposal. The corporation has warned that enforcement will continue and has asked market stakeholders to keep dustbins at and around their establishments rather than leaving bags on the road. The message is paired with the threat of repeat penalties if the same frontages fail the next inspection.
For Old Judicial Complex Road and Jharsa Road traders, the Thursday fines are a concrete price tag on open dumping. A restaurant facing Rs 25,000 and a salon facing Rs 10,000 sit at different scales, but both show MCG is willing to use higher slabs when the alleged littering is tied to a food or personal-care outlet rather than a small stall. For the three markets hit on 18 and 19 September, the Rs 91,500 stack shows how quickly small violations add up when dustbins are missing. MCG's pitch is simple: keep waste inside the shop's bins, keep the footpath clear, or risk another challan on the next inspection round.
Civic staff say market frontages remain among the hardest spots to keep clean because delivery waste, food packaging and evening crowd litter arrive faster than a single sweep cycle can clear. Pairing penalties with councillor-led outreach is the corporation's attempt to change behaviour before the next festival rush fills the same lanes again.
