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The development authority of Delhi, bordering Gurgaon, has announced its draw for 5100 flats in Delhi.

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Gurgaon residents unite to fight for rights

The residents of Gurgaon have united, finally, to fight against the inaction of the Gurgaon administration. Gurgaon is fast becoming a metropolis but has the facilities of a Gaon. Water, power, roads and law & order in Gurgaon have been a severe victim of its booming real estate and consequent population immigration.

Talking about the population of Gurgaon, it is funny to note that wikipedia says it is 2 Lakh!!! Some sources point out that Gurgaon’s population is about 20 Lakh. Gurgaon.com estimates that the population of Gurgaon will reach 37 lakh or more by 2021 – http://www.gurgaon.com/content/?p=40 . That is a very large size of population. However, Gurgaon needs a fine set of leadership to take us there. With the current scenario, Gurgaon could fast see emigration and the population might even dip. Obviously, if you do not provide basic amenities to people and charge them huge amounts for penthouses and bungalows, what are the people gonna do in those houses.

Gurgaon roads and Hindi

I wonder what is the best tool to write in Hindi on the web. I know a few sites which write in Hindi – http://www.gurgaon.com/content/?cat=297 and others but I wonder if this technology has been optimised as yet.

Anyways. Gurgaon is now getting a lot of new roads so it is getting a shade better to travel in the city than before. I was talking to this friend of mine and he wondered if Gurgaon is getting boring though. No bar brawls in Gurgaon in the last few weeks! Omighosh! What a parameter to measure the ‘excitement’ of Gurgaon. Well, one this is reassuring – Gurgaon’s call centers are not firing! he he he he

Properties in Gurgaon crash!!!

Gurgaon is experiencing a real depression in property prices. Till a few months back, the property dealers in Gurgaon did not have any time for chasing clients as the latter were flocking them in large numbers, wanting to buy a ‘piece’ of Gurgaon. Now the chase direction has changed!

My boss was telling me that he gets something like 10 calls every day from very persistent property dealers trying to convince him that investing at this juncture makes a lot of sense. I was reading somewhere that the sales of new flats has come to almost zero in the last few days!!! The city’s portal Gurgaon.com also had a news item today citing that some national association of real estate developers have decided to lower the prices of properties to be launched – unheard of untill some time back!!! Check this out http://www.gurgaon.com/content/?p=256

I wonder what will happen if this continues. Will the prices of existing properties go down too? They may have already gone down a lot. A simple case of demand and supply. When there are no buyers the prices will go down to attract the buyers, till such time as the price becomes low enough for them to start buying. The problem in Gurgaon’s real estate market is that the prices have risen so much over the last 4-5 years that that downward journey may be a very long one!!!

working for a call centre in gurgaon

Last wednesday when i was sitting in my cab to office, i noticed one of the auto rickshaws having a promo sign of a web site on its back! wow, it seems like web sites are promoting them like paan gutkaa waalas… anything goes it seeems/

anyway, it spurred me to think – if there are any good web sites on gurgaon. so when i was in office i looked up google.com to search for sites on gurgaon. and guess what i found… not much… first i found the site called wikipedia, which is essentially a the encyclopedia on the internet.

i found sites like naukri .com and magicbricks.com . i also discovered that there is a site called www.gurgaon.com - quite obvious. It had some interesting articles about call centre industry. a whole lot of sites on property in gurgaon. my god, the property boom in gurgaon has created so many property web sites. but i found one nicely made site called 99acres.com – which was better than most even though it was not only for gurgaon.

this is giving me some ideas – maybe there should be a site which can host blogs of bloggers like me of a particular region?