Sector 9A Still Waiting for Regular MCG Sweepers

GURUGRAM: Residents of Sector 9A say the sector has gone nearly two months without a regular sanitation workforce after the private sweeping contract ended in July, even though the Municipal Corporation of Gurugram had assured deployment of its own staff. The residents' welfare association says orders for deployment were issued on paper but the identified manpower was never released to the sector.

RWA general secretary Lalit Suraj Bhola said that on 4 August the association was told the corporation would provide its own workers and asked to wait a couple of days. We waited for nearly one-and-a-half months. Even after the sanitation workers' strike ended, no regular staff was deployed, he said.

Instead of a fixed team, residents say sanitation crews make short visits, sweep a few lanes and leave. Some stretches go without sweeping for weeks. Waste that is swept is often not lifted because a tractor is not available, Bhola added. Residents have also questioned how attendance and actual work are being monitored on the ground.

Contract end, assurance and the gap on ground

RWA president Vinod Arora called two months without regular sweeping more than a minor service lapse and demanded proper supervision and accountability. He said the association is ready to take over sanitation in the sector at 25 percent less than what MCG pays its private contractor for the same work if the civic body is facing a manpower shortage.

The gap follows a difficult sanitation season for the city. A prolonged sanitation workers' strike earlier disrupted sweeping across zones, and MCG has separately moved to strengthen Zone 4 staffing through a fresh tender. Sector 9A's complaint is narrower: the private contract ended, municipal-roll deployment was promised, and the sector still does not see a stable daily team.

MCG joint commissioner Naresh Kumar could not be reached for comment when the issue was raised. Without an official reply on when the ordered manpower will be released, residents are left watching short visits that do not clear the full sector map.

For apartment and plotted pockets in Sector 9A, irregular sweeping quickly shows in overflowing bins, dirty service lanes and waste left after a partial clean. The RWA's offer to run the work at a lower cost puts pressure on MCG to either deploy the staff already identified or explain why the orders have not translated into boots on the road. Until then, the sector's cleanliness depends on whatever short crew shows up on a given morning.