.Gurgaon: MCG has re-initiated the process of hiring private agencies for mechanised and manual road sweeping across the city, after its first attempt drew interest from just a single bidder. As part of the proposed five-year contract, the corporation plans to engage two private firms to deploy 52 additional mechanical sweepers and 2,500 sanitation workers to meet the city’s sweeping needs.While the machines will clean major roads, sanitation workers will be responsible for sweeping internal roads and narrow lanes.The urban local bodies department granted administrative approval for the project in May this year, but the civic body restarted the selection process after just one agency initially applied. A new assessment shows Gurgaon needs 72 mechanical sweepers; it currently has 20 (owned by the ULB). The two selected agencies will supply the remaining 52 machines.MCG executive engineer Sunder Sheoran said the project is expected to become operational within the next two months. “We expect the work to begin in about two months. Around 2,500 sanitation workers will be deployed through these agencies, particularly for internal lanes that sweeping machines cannot access,” Sheoran said.Officials added that the project is expected to significantly expand mechanised road sweeping in the city while ensuring manual cleaning of internal lanes and other areas where machines cannot operate.It was in Dec 2025 that the civic body submitted a revised administrative approval proposal for mechanised and manual road sweeping across the city. MCG said the estimates have been reworked and prepared zone-wise to ensure more effective implementation and monitoring. These zones have now been reorganised from four to eight.Officials said the city’s newly formed eight zones have now been divided into two clusters and that two agencies will be appointed to maintain them.
