According to sources in the corporation, a report relating to allocating of wards has been sent for approval to the Haryana Government, through the deputy commissioner,after conducting a survey.

The long pending demand of Gurgaon residents of having a corporation would be met as soon as government approval comes in.The elections for ward councillors will follow.

The general elections delayed the process. Soon, the government will return the approved file and would take over civic welfare jobs.

"We have sent the file to Deepti Umashankar, Deputy Commissioner, Gurgaon.

However, I have no idea where the file is pending at the moment," said Rajiv Sharma, MCG Commissioner. Once the government accepts the survey report, it would issue a notice, he added. Gurgaon will proba bly have 31 wards, he said.

The Municipal Corporation, which came into being in June 2008, is being run without any wards and councillors till date.

Prior to the corporation, it was a municipal committee,which looked after welfare matters, mainly in the old city.

In the sectors developed by the Haryana Urban Development Authority (HUDA), which is the main housing developing agency in the city, as well as in builders' areas, welfare work would be maintained bythe corporation.

However,residents of the city are quite upset as many civic welfare projects in the city got delayed in the process of shifting them from the HUDA to the corporation. "It is very irritating,"said R.S.Raghav,president of the Residents Welfare Association (RWA), Sector 15-I.

The corporation claims to have done a lot of development in the past year. It has written several letters to the Haryana government. The corporation has its own areas in Old Gurgaon. It is already in the process of surveying the new areas, which are expected to come up under it.

"Nothing has been done ever since the corporation came up.

On the contrary,HUDA authorities have delayed many pending projects on the excuse of shifting them to the corpora tion,"said Dharam Sagar,chairman of the Federation of Residents Welfare Association of Urban Estates. "I do understand the public wrath, though I have taken appropriate steps to expedite the process and have forwarded the survey report further.

However, the elections delayed the matter. It is hoped that the wards would be ready soon," said Rajiv Sharma, Commissioner,MCG.