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Gurgaon has spent more than INR 10000 crs or more than a billion dollars on waste management in the last decade. To put this money in perspective, the largest waste management company in India has an asset base of nearly 10% of this money and manages bio-mining and waste management in more than 10 cities of India. With this kind of money, every ward of Gurgaon could have had a functioning material recovery facility centre, segmented waste-processing facilities and closed land-fill for methane harvesting. But, 40% of this money spent never made it for the purpose and the rest went into untraceable / non-productive activities. Every state in India, more so Haryana, needs a waste management BOARD to define protocols, guidelines, SOPs and approaches (like we have in electricity / water boards). But syndicates in Gurgaon like cities shun such reforms because that will stop milking this cash-cow. That is also the reason, no formal organisation is keen to bid for waste management tenders in Gurgaon. Waste Management crisis of Gurgaon is a crisis of accountability and governance not so much of resources. People need to demand it only then they will get it. @MunCorpGurugram