Which is the Millennium city of India? asked one of my colleagues. I said Gurgaon. The follow up question was why? I answered because of the growth of the city. He laughed and proposed an alternative answer.
The traffic jams in Gurgaon is intolerable. If you count the time wasted by any person in an average day and multiply it by the number of people to get an idea on total time wasted in Gurgaon, you will realize that Gurgaon wastes millennium hours in traffic jams. This makes Gurgaon millennium city. If we think millennium word linked with growth and infrastructure we are misguided. In Gurgaon where is the health care system for the poor, where is a public transport system, where is sufficient water supply, where is electricity?
May be the millennium city needs to look at the sustainability of its explosion.
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