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The growth rate of Gurugram has been tremendous in the last three decades and the city has been built on the agricultural land of the nearby villages through the landuse landcover transformation that happened within the flux of socio-economic transformations modulated by private capital. The local government provides the contextualization and path dependencies for the foundational outcomes of neoliberal policies. The regulatory function of the local government is still not less important as it regulates the private capital and restricts its reckless flourishment, modulate its momentum, guides its growth, demonstrate its own dominance, and supports its subordination but legalizes neoliberal logic. The implications of neoliberalism would have been more disastrous for the marginal section of the urban people with intra-city disparity and inequality if the policies of the local government fall under the trap of neoliberal philosophy.