Khandsa waste fire and Bandhwari are not separate stories.
They are part of the same system.
One shows fire and smoke. #toxicair
The other shows what it means to live with it every day and the leachate #toxicwater
In Bandhwari, a father breaks down speaking about his son’s cancer. A villager says:
“हमें बेवकूफ़ बनाया गया है…”
Across these sites, the core issue is not just response to fires and waste dumps - it is the scale of waste being generated, how it is managed, and what it is doing to public health and the environment.
We also need to understand something important: when such incidents are properly examined and their scale and impact are clearly understood, it helps ensure that local authorities can actually be supported with the right attention, resources, and response capacity.
In other words, transparency is not about blame. It is about strengthening systems so that cities are better equipped to respond, prevent recurrence, and protect public health.
We need to seriously ask:
How much waste is avoidable?
How much can be reduced, segregated, and safely processed?
And what systems are required to ensure this does not repeatedly end in fires and exposure?
After the Khandsa fire, we have written to MCG, HSPCB and other authorities seeking clarity on waste composition, emissions, health advisories, monitoring, and prevention systems.
If we do not reduce the problem at source, we will keep managing its consequences.
These are not isolated incidents. They reflect a structural gap that needs urgent attention.
#Khandsa #Bandhwari #Gurugram #Haryana #WasteManagement #PublicHealth #AirPollution #WasteMinimization
@MoHUA_India@moefcc@ulbharyana@cmohry@MunCorpGurugram@DC_Gurugram@OfficialGMDA@CAQM_Official@PrinSciAdvGoI@CPCB_OFFICIAL@avneeshkhandsa@priyanka_dmehta
https://t.co/3jtzAfYHYI
For 3 days at age is burning, smouldering.. a you imagine the amount of toxic air pollution being released! Health crisis for those nearby #Gurugram#AirPollution#Haryana
MCG “fines” and “compensation” aren’t paid by ministers, officials or contractors. They are paid from public money.
Residents pay once through taxes, again through penalties arising from mismanagement, and a third time through the health impacts of pollution episodes such as this massive fire at the MCG waste collection and dumping site, unsanitary conditions in the markets as well as ongoing exposure to landfill leachate, dust, smoke and microplastic contamination.
#Jawabdehi #Gurugram #PublicHealth #WasteFire #Sanitation #GlobalCity #Taxpayer
@moefcc@CAQM_Official@CPCB_OFFICIAL@NayabSainiBJP@Rao_InderjitS@RaoNarbir@Saumyacritic@AmarUjalaNews
Corruptest city Gurgaon and state Haryana. Almost every officer top to bottom is corrupt. Almost. Others are corrupt by not taking action or ignoring or conniving. And still others by taking non monetary favors. This is the real environment @NayabSainiBJP@narendramodi congrats for achieving the best bhakt status !
An ambulance carrying a critical patient was stopped for 5 minutes to allow the CM's convoy to pass through first in Jaipur. The traffic police can be heard shamelessly saying, “Arrey, oxygen de to rakhi hai yaar... Maine ishaara kar diya hai, band kar de (to switch off the ambulance siren).”
Even a 2-year-old child is aware of Modi's usual script of letting ambulances pass during his roadshows. However, the reality is quite different. His own ministers and CMs are well aware of his theatrics, which is why they don't follow the practice themselves.
If you are in Phase 3, you can do anything you like. This is DLF building, road is occupied, broken, traffic managed privately, no cops and a sleeping @DC_Gurugram ? You cannot see Sir ? Or you don’t want to see ? @cmohry what is happening here ?
#Breaking: CBSE Removed Blacklisting Clause Before OSM Contract Was Awarded, Documents Reveal
CNN-News18 has accessed the original 132-page tender document issued by the CBSE to firm in August
@SimranBabbar_05 shares more details
@poonam_burde | #CBSE
India wants to become a $10 trillion economy.
But CBSE could not protect a password.
And no.
This is not a joke.
18.5 lakh Class 12 students appeared for CBSE Board Exams in 2026.
Their answer sheets were handed to a company with 51 employees.
A teenager reportedly broke into the system within minutes.
This was not innovation.
It was institutional comedy.
CBSE launched On-Screen Marking.
OSM.
The promise?
Transparency.
Accuracy.
Speed.
The result?
Swapped answer sheets.
Blurred scans.
Missing pages.
Portal crashes.
Embarrassment.
Some students opened photocopies of their answer books.
They found someone else's handwriting under their roll number.
Now look at the scale.
18.5 lakh students.
26 countries.
7,574 exam centres.
120 subjects.
98 lakh answer booklets.
40 crore pages.
77,000 teachers logging in.
All processed in 10 days.
And managed by a company smaller than many CBSE schools.
Then came the tender.
Two companies qualified.
TCS.
600,000 employees.
57 years of credibility.
$29 billion revenue.
And Coempt Edu Teck.
51 employees.
Guess who won.
Not the company trusted by banks.
Airlines.
Governments.
Stock exchanges.
The other one.
But there is a twist.
Coempt was once called Globarena Technologies.
The same company linked to Telangana's 2019 Intermediate Exam fiasco.
3.8 lakh students received wrong marks.
Toppers became failures.
3 lakh sought reverification.
20 students died by suicide in eight days.
Months later.
Globarena changed its name.
The memories remained.
Then came the cybersecurity masterpiece.
OTP verification on the browser.
Not the server.
Password resets without old passwords.
Examiner IDs editable from browser storage.
And a master password sitting inside public source code.
No encryption.
No hashing.
Just there.
A School project is much secured and Scalable than this.
Like keeping jewellery outside a jewellery shop with a sign saying:
"Please don't touch."
CERT-In was reportedly informed in February 2026.
The platform went live anyway.
77,000 teacher logins.
40 crore pages.
No fix.
70,000 answer books required rescanning.
15,000 shifted back to physical evaluation.
The digital revolution quietly asked for revaluation.
Then officials defended the system.
And later called IITs to help fix it.
Which is a bit like crashing a bus and then inviting ISRO to explain gravity.
Now comes the uncomfortable question.
TCS was on the shortlist.
TCS lost.
A company carrying the baggage of a past exam controversy won.
How?
Who approved it?
Who reviewed the risks?
Who signed the file?
Nobody seems eager to answer.
NEET chaos.
Now CBSE chaos.
Every year we hear the same slogans.
Student-centric.
Technology-driven.
Future-ready.
Wonderful words.
Terrible execution.
India does not have a shortage of talent.
India has a shortage of accountability.
Mr. Education Minister, will you answer?
@DaikinIndia - My AC is delivered in Gurgaon since 4 days by Amazon. No installation yet. Have been calling customer care but no luck. You have a great product but a very poor service.
CBSE gave the Class 12 digital checking contract to COEMPT Edu Teck.
Questions are being raised because:
• COEMPT is reportedly linked to/earlier known as Globarena, a company previously surrounded by evaluation controversies.
• CBSE floated OSM tenders multiple times, and reports say final tender conditions were relaxed.
• Scanning requirement was reportedly reduced from 300 DPI to 200 DPI.
• High-end/robotic scanner requirement was reportedly removed.
• Software maturity condition was reportedly reduced from CMMI Level 5 to Level 3.
• Strict penalty clauses for scanning errors were reportedly diluted.
• After this, COEMPT qualified and won on financial bid.
• Students later complained of blurred scans, missing pages, wrong copies, delayed photocopies and portal/payment glitches.
CBSE says due process was followed. But if everything is clean, CBSE should publish the full tender file, technical evaluation marks, financial bids and vendor performance report.
@WorldBankGroup@WorldBankSAsia u must have follwed basic protocol? waste management is a complete chaos at Gurgaon. there is no processing capacity 4 any waste stream, transportation& collection are outsourced. there is 0 effort on awareness. Have a look at @cleanAirBharat
@DaikinIndia Request # 51763327. I have bought approx 11 AC from Daikin in last 11 years and most of them were installed by Saini Air Cool or Sheetla Air con in Gurgaon. I need my AC to be installed by either of these authorised daikin partners.