An entrepreneur has sparked a discussion after saying that he does not want to shift back to Delhi from Gurugram despite the city’s civic issues.
Taking to X, Saurabh Jain, founder of Uncle Math Lab and a former vice president at Paytm , shared that he had lived in Delhi since birth and that his father’s family had been living in the city for hundreds of years.
However, after moving to Gurugram less than a year ago, Jain said he preferred staying there.
He listed career opportunities, greenery in DLF areas, malls, restaurants and road connectivity among the reasons he prefers Gurugram. “Gurugram will improve one day for sure. My Dadiji’s family is from here. Roads, civic infrastructure, economic activity, even electricity and water supply have all improved a lot since my earliest memories of visiting Gurgaon in mid 1980s,” he wrote. Tagging Haryana Chief Minister Nayab Singh Saini and Prime Minister Narendra Modi, he added, “Please do double engine magic. Abhi unfortunately double engine fail ho gaya hai. Sealing and construction todne se problem solve nahin hogi. “Delhi is far better than Gurugram in terms of infrastructure, greenery, connectivity, malls, better and cheaper schools, roads, domestic helps and but cheaper also. Career opportunities are more in Gurgaon but then you can travel from Delhi too. There is no drainage system at all.
It has improved considerably over last 4 decades. Gurgaon will not improve, atleast in next 10 years. To make it better, government will have to demolish 20-30% houses and build drainage system,” wrote a third user.
He acknowledged that the Gurugram administration and Haryana government have been “pathetic” in dealing with civic issues, but he believes that the city will improve one day. “Gurugram administration and Haryana Govt are no doubt pathetic but the career opportunities, greenery (DLF areas), malls, restaurants and road connectivity to Rajasthan and Haryana you get here are better than Delhi,” he wrote. The entrepreneur also said that Gurugram offers gated colonies and services such as Blinkit ambulances and Urban Company domestic help, which he claimed are generally not available in most parts of Delhi. Jain said that the city has improved significantly over the past four decades, recalling his visits to Gurugram in the mid-1980s. “Only these 4 changes will make Gurugram better than most Indian cities,” he wrote. “Delhi is much much greener than Gurgaon, better schools, colleges, malls, restaurants , places to chill, connectivity to the whole world,” said another.
