Gurugram and Nuh : No two places exemplify the ‘Two Indias’ model more starkly. Gurugram is called millennium city, with its shiny malls, gated enclaves and gleaming high-rises that are packed with offices of MNCs and young startups with its citizens earning per capita incomes far above the national average.
Nuh, only 60 kms away, is the poorest district not just in Haryana but in the region, with 40% living below the poverty threshold, according to Niti Aayog’s National Multidimensional Poverty Index 2023. In this neglected backwater, citizens are susceptible to a toxic mix of communalism and criminality.
