India, Aug. 2 -- Five years after it was upgraded to a municipal corporation, Manesar is grappling with an escalating garbage crisis- one that residents and civic activists say is now worse than Gurugram's. With no designated dumping zones, mismanagement of waste handling contracts, and a complete disregard for Resident Welfare Associations (RWAs), the sanitation system has collapsed.

Massive heaps of garbage, construction waste, and unmanaged wood lie scattered across residential and industrial sectors, especially IMT Sector 8. "There is no fixed place to dump even wood. Earlier, it was being collected on HSIIDC land in Sector 8, but that too has now been vacated due to poor management," said Praveen Malik, president of the Rising (SARE...