India, Aug. 24 -- For over a decade, residents of HEWO 2 society in Sector 56 have been forced to live with sewage inside their homes-an ordeal that has now become one of Gurugram's longest-running civic failures. What began as a seemingly local drainage issue has spiraled into a full-blown public health crisis, urban planning disaster, and governance scandal.

Every manhole outside the society is overflowing with filth. Years ago,the Municipal Corporation of Gurugram (MCG), declared the sewer line as too small for the load it carries. The drain serves not only HEWO 2 but also several neighboring condominiums, commercial complexes, and the sprawling hospital campus. With the system stretched far beyond capacity, human waste routinely spil...