The presentation brings the story of iamgurgaon with its complete details - goals, values, objective, achievements so far, running project details

1. iamgurgaon
Work Together. Make a Difference
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2. ORIGIN, METHODOLOGY &
• iamgurgaon is an initiative aimed at awakening a responsible, aware and vigilant populace in order to make
our city a better place to live in.
• It is a platform to encourage and enable the residents of Gurgaon and other stake holders to Improve living
conditions in Gurgaon.
• This includes bringing together all interest groups: residents, the administration, corporate, schools, RWA's,
NGO's, and developers, amongst others, in a collaborative partnership to effect change...
Structure
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Monthly focus area
 events
Awareness
Campaigns
Resource web site
Enabling self governance
 network of area
representative to connect
Across group, to facilitate
initiatives
Provide information
 Platform for discussion &
solution
Build database of
committed Gurgaon
Residents
Role
 Mentor Group
 Institutional Support Group
 Professional Support group
 Area Representative
 Project Head
 Volunteer Member

3. AREAS OF INTERVENTION & ISSUES
 Cleanliness
 Citizen Pride
 Water/Water Harvesting
 Condition of Physical Environment
 Greenery
 Traffic Rural/Urban disparity
 Infrastructure
 Environmental Awareness
 Family Facilities
 Civic sense
 Voting Governance
Issues

4. General Issues
Events/Action
Cleanliness • removal of encroachment, localized treatment
• of open sewage
ZONE A (Cyber City Road)
•Road Show – each building
•Road pe raahi bhai – bhai
•Nukkad Natak
•Awareness Campaign
- Poster in all Offices
-EDMS to all Offices
- Banner at visible locations
ZONE B (Golf Course Road)
Immediate Action – Golf Course Round About
(Itrack, Make my Trip)
Smriti Vatika –concert every month, run
Tree planting with pledges every run/tree
planting/community buildings
Presentation to corporate for funding
ZONE C (Galleria Road)
Immediate Action –Development of Road Berm along
Hamilton Road (AIRTEL)
Planting Drives
- Shri Ram
- Mothers Pride
- Little Footprints
No car zone event near school
Presentation to Hamilton Court, Ridgewood, Regency,
Windsor RWA
Nukkad Natak at Galleria (exhibition)
Sale of Jute Bags/IAG bags, donations
ZONE D (New Road)
Immediate Action – Development of Chowk on new road
Nature walk
Human Chain to protect Ridge (environmental association)
Green • Garbage Management and Disposal
• Planting along road berms/medians/verges/round
abouts
• Garbage bins (bio degradable and non
biodegradable)
Water Rain water harvesting
Traffic • pedestrian movement to be defined- zebra
• crossing
• designated parking areas
• street lighting
• Uniform signage
• Sidewalk
• Street furniture
Condition of Physical
Environment
Public toilets
ACTION PLAN
MG Road – towards Delhi
NH - 8
Golf Course
Shri Ram School
Galleria Market
Road Stretch near Healers Hospital
Smriti Vatika
Sector - 55
Golf Course Round About
Chowk on New Road
Entry to New Road from MG
Road
Zone A
Zone D
Zone B
Zone C
MG Road – towards NH-8 NH-8 – towards Jaipur
Anand School
Focus Area
Zone B
Zone A
Zone D
Zone C
DLF 9A Building
Cyber city Road
Golf Course Road
Galleria Market Road
New Road
Analysis/Issues of IAG Survey: Across all Zones

6. .
EARLY PROJECTS
Initiatives Delivered in 2009-2012
•Iamgurgaon has and is working on a number of infrastructure related projects with the aim of making Gurgaon a
better place to live and work in.
• Designed and held events to encourage people to plant trees at the Bio-diversity park. Atal Kapoor has been
appointed as the consultant to MCG for the biodiversity park.
• Cleaning initiatives - adopting market (DLF shopping mall - Arjun Marg) with Nukkad Natak to spread message on
cleanliness. Worked with DLF RWA to get parking and signage’s for easy access to the market.
• Organized runs with Running and Living focusing on greening, cleaning and water.
• Greening of Triangles, roundabouts on the road – with the support of corporates.
• Organized events in markets to encourage people to carry their own bags for shopping with help of school.
• Worked with apartment buildings to maintain patches in front of their buildings, manage their own garbage and
discourage use of polythene.
• Monitored Sulabh employees on cleaning of the roads and help in improving their techniques. A core member,
Mr Harish Capoor, is also a sanitation consultant to Municipal Corporation of Gurgaon.
• Working closely with MCG on many projects related to the Master plan for water harvesting and its implementation.
• Working on a water campaign with MCG to create awareness.
• Working with other NGO’s and individuals to enhance the green cover in Gurgaon.
• Working with the Cyber City Association, DLF and other Corporates to improve the conditions in the area.
• Involved with underprivileged schools to provide platform to participate in social activities.

7. CORE TEAM
Swanzal Kak Kapoor
Swanzal is a partner at SAKA architects and has a specialization in urban
design. She is passionately committed to ecological design and a
participatory approach to urban development
Latika Thukral
Latika has worked with Citibank for 18 years. Her dream was to set up an
NGO called ‘Save Gurgaon’ which has been realized two years later with
iamgurgaon.
Gayatri Singh
Gayatri co-founded Q2AMedia in 2000, a successful education content
company. She won the Tata TiE Stree Shakti Award in 2009 (an award for
woman entrepreneurship).
Atal Kapoor
A leading architect with 20 years experience in India and abroad. Atal has
experimented with the innovative use of materials and “green architecture”.
Deep Kalra
Deep is the pioneer of Online Travel in India. His company,
MakeMyTrip.com is the dominant player in the travel industry and also the
largest ecommerce business in India.
Renu Kalagnanam
Renu ,a qualified architect, moved to Gurgaon 7 years ago. While hunting
for home and school, the barren landscape of the Millenium city left her
with a need to make a difference.
Priti Sanwalka
Priti Sanwalka has lived in Gurgaon for more than 10 years. She is a
chartered accountant by qualification and has worked in one of the large
MNC's in Gurgaon.

8. THE BIODIVERSITY PARK

9. INTRODUCTION

10. THE VISION

11. HABITAT PLAN

12. GLIMPSES & IMAGES
(phase – 2) 25,000 plants
20,000 plants
15000
20000
completed

13. GLIMPSES & IMAGES

14. DETAILS – GABION WALLS & WALKWAYS

15. DETAILS – THE

16. DETAILS - PARKING
 The entire expanse of the parking
lot allows for percolation of water.
 In addition the grading of the space
will collect water in s rain water
harvesting tank .
 Solar panels will create shade for
the parked cars as well as provide
night lighting for the entrance and
visitor centre.

17. DETAILS – NATURAL
WATERBODIES
Who doesn’t know the importance of creating a natural pond! “iamgurgaon”
with the help of MakeMyTrip and Bacardi has created two natural ponds at the
Biodiversity Park. This project cost 10lakhs to create.

18. NURSERY
Where do you get the flora of Aravali, is there enough knowledge vis-à-vis micro-habitats, growing plants?
There was no nursery that provided forest plants of Aravali region in the country. At best, 20 percent of the
species could be sourced from forest nurseries in Rajasthan, Gujarat and Madhya Pradesh had been
availed. Coca Cola & KPMG foundation joined hands with “iamgurgaon” to build own nursery. This nursery
was created to be the backbone the project “milliontreesgurgaon” and to also be the main source of native
Aravali plants (trees, shrubs, herbs and climbers)
Over last 5 “iamgurgaon” had traced the flora of the Aravali region with the help of naturalist and
horticulture specialist Vijay Dhasmana. We have identified trees, shrubs, climbers, herbs and grasses in the
Aravali and central mixed deciduous forests.
All year round, we kept on procuring seeds, stem cuttings and germinating plants, apart from maintaining
the old stock.
By the end of March 2013 we were able to germinate about 38 species in our nursery and in a very short
time we had almost 35,000 saplings.
Our biggest achievements have been:-
•Collection of seeds of more than 50 species.
•Successful germination of 57 species
•Successful germination of Anogeissus pendula (Dhok) a signature species of the Aravali range
Introduction of 13 species to the park: Sterculia urens (Kullu), Boswellia serrata (Salai),
Helicterus isora (Marodfali), lannea coromandelica (Gurjan), Albizzia odoratissima (Kala
sirus), Albizzia amara (Krishna sirus), Bauhinia racemosa (Jhinjheri), Mitragyna
parviflora (Kaim), Wrightia tinctoria (dudhi), Wrightia arborea

19. NURSERY

20. MILLIONTREESGURGAON

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22. “Milliontreesgurgaon” is an initiative of iamgurgaon in a public-private partnership of
governemnt, NGOs, corporate, and civil society of Gurgaon. with one ambitious goal: to plant
and nurture one million trees in Gurgaon. A large part of the Aravali range, its flora and fauna
has been lost to rampant development and urbanization. “milliontreesgurgaon” intends to
restore and revive and lost rich flora of Aravali species.
Planting a million trees does seem a daunting task – but what would this mean to Gurgaon?
The benefits to Gurgaon are huge .Sustainability is the key to this operation. We have
identified locations that can be secured, monitored and fed with recycled water. The trees are
cared and nurtured for 3 years.
Since 2011, 75,000 trees have been planted and 45,000 only at Aravali Biodiversity Park, with
the involvement of over 35corporate, 30schools and 15000 inspired individuals across
Gurgaon.
Maximum attention of the iamgurgaon team has had been directed towards finding the right
saplings to plant. With great precision 57 Aravali species have been reintroduced in the park
since last year. Dhau is one such nature tree that is a “habitat specialist” and the quintessential
tree of the rocky Aravalis.
MILLION TREES GURGAON

23. Why Plantation
BENEFITS OF PLANTATION

24. MILLION TREES GURGAON

25. Hoardings & Posters
MILLIONTREESGURGAON –

26. ECO-BENCH PROJECT
The eco-bench project is an arts initiative by iamgurgaon and the Municipal Corporation
Gurgaon that seeks to involve the citizens of Gurgaon in the design and/or selection of park
benches for the Aravalli Bio-Diversity Park, Gurgaon. This had been envisaged with the intent
to offer citizens an opportunity to participate in the process of the park’s development while
fostering a sense of community and ownership. It will additionally add vibrancy and interest
within the landscape of the park, providing places for rest, conversations or quiet
introspection.
The Eco Bench Design Contest started with 70 participants but unfortunately only 18 could
submit before the deadline.
Judges KT, Savita and Pradeep went through rigorous discussions to select the 5shortlisted
design based on the four criteria of sustainability, originality, ergonomics and viability and
they are the following:
Finally only four of the final shortlisted contestants fabricated their beautiful benches at the
Biodiversity Park with great fervor and zeal just in 9days. Keeping in mind the aspect of visual
appeal, sustainability and from the standpoint of Biodiversity Park the winner has been
unanimously chosen through onsite voting and by judges selection.
Finally the winner for Eco Bench Design Contest was Architect Henri Fanthome, followed by
Brick By Brick and Saurabh Surayan.

27. EARTH DAY
This Earth Day on April 22nd was celebrated with kidsforgurgaon – an iamgurgaon initiative to
start the “carry your own bag” campaign in association with Galleria Market Association,
corporate partner - Genpact and C&C Construction and DLF RWA. The day stood to
demonstrate our support for environmental protection by pledging “Say no to Plastics &
Carry your Own bag” and also emphasized the need to shift to reusable bags in Galleria.
The market was packed all throughout the day with 400 school children and neighbourhood
children participating in wide array of activities like a Green Parade,a Green Quiz,Coin A
Slogan, a Wishing Tree and a Carry your Own Bag Pledge Wall. In the evening, we had a
recycled Newspaper bag making workshop by the children of Saksham. Participating schools
included The Shri Ram School, Ridge Valley School, Kunskappskolan, Saksham and Gaurav
Niketan The children of Search Years Kalasthali and Masti Ki Pathshala performed beautiful
musical performance in the morning and the children of
Sikanderpur village presented a Nukkad Natak in the evening.

28. & ARAVALI
SCHOLARS
Sunehra Sikanderpur
Project

29. - Education
- Health
- Sanitation
- Community Development
- Empowerment
- Microfinance
PROBLEMS

30. .
Children
Basic English classes
for children in the
govt. schools in
Sikanderpur. The
work is outside
curriculum work
Anyone
English classes for
anyone who wants
to attend ranging
from teenagers to
adults
English
Training
Working with
Ms. Vinita Idnani
EDUCATION
-We are in touch with NGOs and are finding ways to improve
the condition of the schools
- People have started to monitor proper functioning of the
schools and are ensuring that the children are actually going
to them
WHAT ARE WE DOING

31. .
SANITATION
• We are talking to NGOs and set up certain
programs to spread awareness among the
people of Sikanderpur in order to keep it
clean
• We are getting in touch with an NGO
called Jamghat which will conduct street
plays to spread awareness to the people
of Sikanderpur
HEALTH
•Rotary will conduct free surgery to
people who have a cleft palate
•We are trying to improve the
condition of the current hospital in
the village and get it functioning again
•We are also in touch with the
Sikanderpur Charitable Dispensary
COMMUNITY
DEVELOPMENT
• Parks and playgrounds
• Small departmental Store in which goods can be
purchased at lower prices
• Programs to spread awareness among the people
of the village to keep a clean Sikanderpur
• We are exploring with a company called
“Magic Bus”, the options of developing some
sports in the village.
WHAT ARE WE DOING

32. .
EMPOWERMENT
- Voter – Id
• Writing complaints
• We are getting in touch with an NGO
called Janaagraha in order to get voter
ids for the immigrants
- Plan with Labournet
Labournet will be taking classes for people
willing to attend in the village. These
classes will inculcate certain skills in the
people of the village and help them get
employed. Some training subjects are as
follows
• Work Place Skills- (WPS)
• Retail Sales
• Tailoring
• Beauty & Hair Care (Women)
• Auto Mechanic
• Hospitality
WHAT ARE WE DOING
MICROFINANCE
We got in touch with a
company called
Janlakshmi Financial
Services to explore the
possibilities of
microfinance in the
village. Janlakshmi has
now started their project
in the village.

33. CITIZENS OUTREACH
Genpact BMR Advisors NTT
BlackRock BhartiAirtel Domino Printech
Cargill Bacardi RBS DLF
Punj Llyod Helion Advisors Pvt. Ltd. AMEX
Saif Partners Bosch & Lomb Kornferry
CMS KPMG Baxter Convergys MakeMyTrip
Li & Fung Orient Craft Mizuho
Aecom Canon
Promed Exports Coca Cola
DLF Senior Citizens Council
LetsWalk
Gurgaon
Running & Living Group
Garden Estate Community
PedalYatri
GurgaonMoms”
GurgaonDrumCircle
SOIL
Rotary Club
Shri Ram DPS
Rabindranath International Sankalp
Siddheswar Saksham
Amity International Vidya
Ridge Valley Heritage
Vasant Valley Literacy India
Scottish High Matrikiran

34. MEDIA

35. MEDIA