When author Harini Srinivasan turned up at the Club House polling booth in Gurugram’s Central Park in Sector 42 on Saturday to cast her vote for the Haryana Assembly Election , the poor infrastructure of the Millennium City was at the top of her mind. Among the first few to have exercised her franchise early in the day, Ms. Srinivsan said there was a lot to be improved on the infrastructure front in Gurugram, and this was one issue on which she had cast her vote.
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Srinivasan, a former civil servant, pointed out, adding that “every time it rains there is water-logging”. She, however, praised the effort of the district administration to set up a polling booth inside her group housing society premises for the first time, saying that it was “extremely convenient”. Earlier, she had to drive to a polling booth in DLF Phase-5, but today it was just two minutes away from her house.
“Shame on people, if they still don’t come out to wait,” she remarked. And it was not just her, but many residents staying in the luxury apartments in the Gururgram’s upmarket Golf Course road area had inadequate infrastructure, traffic jams, women safety, and poor traffic management on top of their agendas as they turned out to vote. Ravi Shankar, who runs an NGO, said Gurugram contributed the maximum revenue to the State exchequer, but the authorities a.
