India, Feb. 21 -- Sidharth Chowdhry, a resident of DLF Phase 2, has seen Gurugram from the perspective of a professional civil engineer and as someone emotionally invested in the city's evolution.

Chowdhry says Gurugram's rapid real estate growth has not been matched by corresponding infrastructure planning. Having seen the city's transformation over several decades, he believes the expansion has been uneven.

"I have been visiting Gurugram from Delhi since 1951," he said. "There was just one main road back then. To visit a relative in Chakkarpur, I had to park my car on the main road and walk through fields. Today, those fields are gone, towers have come up but the planning mindset has not kept pace with the scale of development."

Chow...