Gurgaon
Information about Gurgaon city and places around Gurgaon India and NCR.

Gurgaon is an old city of Haryana. But the Gurgaon we are referring here is the new Gurgaon that is emerging as the millennium city of India. The public profile of upcoming Gurgaon is quite young and affluent.

The new Gurgaon is the symbol of India’s developing economy. The city houses a plethora of big Indian corporate, and Multi National Companies. You name it and it’s there in Gurgaon – Ernst and Young, GE Capital, GM, Mercer, Microsoft, Dell, HP, American Express, all big global names have their offices in Gurgaon.

The existence of BPOs and Call Centers also adds to the young crowd of Gurgaon. The average age of the employees of BPO is between 20-30 years. As compared to the other cities of India Gurgaon has a very high number of BPOs.

It is evident that the profile of upcoming Gurgaon people has to be young working professionals. All these companies have employed relatively young people, most of them between age group of 25-40 years. Majority of the families in Gurgaon are young – either married couples with young children or married working couples without children.

In past 6 to 7 years Gurgaon has experienced an influx of such young working couples and individuals. As a result the real estate of Gurgaon has experienced a boom. Private builders like DLF, Unitech, and Ansal are coming up with huge number of residential projects and the new working class people are ready pay any price for homes within these world class residential complexes.

Profile of upcoming Gurgaon people is quite easygoing and fun loving. This is the reason why Gurgaon is replete with haunts that youngsters are looking forward to, for example, pubs, discos, or hang out joints like TGIF and Mojo.

Diverse Crowd of Gurgaon

Another striking thing about the public profile of upcoming Gurgaon is that it comes from different parts of India. No doubt that the place has maximum people from adjoining cities of Noida, Faridabad, and Delhi. But the percentage of people belonging to other states like Southern India, West Bengal, Bihar, UP, Gujrat, is also relatively high.

Also the number of NRIs, and foreign nationals living in the city is quite high. A number of NRIs who have either come back or settled in India, or those who want to buy house for investment purpose consider Gurgaon worthy. Foreigners who are in India on international assignment also like to hang up in Gurgaon due to the presence of international brands of apparels, accessories, food stuff, in Gurgaon.

Gurgaon is still a growing city and nurturing a huge young crowd who crave for a modern and youthful environment. But is the city providing them with the infrastructure and safety that should be in an international city.

True that the public profile of upcoming Gurgaon is young and affluent but the city looks worn out with broken roads and lack of street lights. The only thing that attracts our attention is the hip-hop amidst the tall and stylish structures.

Vikrant Mahadev, DLF IV