India, June 11 -- The Gurugram Metropolitan Development Authority (GMDA) and the Haryana Shehri Vikas Pradhikaran (HSVP) have been passing the buck between each other over the installation of civic infrastructure amid pending maintenance handovers, leaving a key master road connecting the Dwarka Expressway and Basai Road in Sector 102/102A unlit and in the dark due to defunct streetlights.

While the GMDA acknowledged that the road falls under its jurisdiction, the responsibility for streetlights lay with the HSVP at present. The HSVP, however, said that it was only responsible for maintaining the streetlights and not for the installation of new ones.

GMDA's junior engineer for the area, Rohit, who goes by a single name, said, "Maintenan...