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Who We Are
Gurugram is one of the fastest-growing cities in north India. Fast-paced development has led to several issues concerning sustainability and governance.
Gurgaon First is an initiative for positive change focused on issues relating to sustainability, good governance women safety and empowerment in Gurugram. Launched in 2012, the initiative aims to highlight issues, suggest solutions, and showcase progress in an effort to improve both the living and working experiences of citizens in the city of Gurugram through conferences/conclaves/ workshops as well as research/publishing. Specifically, some issues that we focus on are smart and sustainable city, sustainable transportation, water and waste management, electricity management, solar energy, green buildings, eco-green initiatives, improving city governance, women’s safety and youth empowerment.
What We Do
Engagement
We engage with stakeholder bodies, CSO and agencies to being about Social Awareness
Shubhra Puri
Founder, Gurgaon First
Impact Stories
“Say No to Plastics”
“We made plastic. We depend on it. Now we are drowning in it”. This statement describes quite aptly how once considered a boon, plastics is now threatening to be earth’s most notorious waste. Its strewn everywhere – on streets and waste dumps; blocking sewer pipes, at landfills, floating on rivers and water bodies and messing
Reviving water bodies finally picks up
Gurgaon experienced an unusually wet winter this time. Rain gods obliged and the city had decent rainfall that helped reduce pollution somewhat. Hopefully, all the rain water did not run off and some did percolate down to raise the ground water level. Had there been enough means to store this water in the city, it
Breaking free from stereotypes/ Towards stronger women Bonding
Accept it or not, women mindfully or unmindfully minimise the worth of themselves and (also in the process) other women they come across. This incident refuses to fade away from my memory. It was 4 pm in a hot, summer afternoon. I was at a sports academy that day. A new kid had joined accompanied
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