Chandigarh, Aug. 3 -- Concerns over the deployment and distribution of safai karamcharis in the city's northern sectors were raised during the Municipal Corporation House meeting on Friday, with councillors questioning disparities in the number of sanitation workers assigned to different sectors. The issue prompted municipal commissioner Amit Kumar to direct officials to submit a detailed deployment report within a week for review.

The information was furnished by the MC health wing in response to a question by Ward 2 councillor Maheshinder Singh Sidhu regarding the actual and required number of safai karamcharis in Sectors 1 to 30. The record shows 1,588 safai karamcharis deployed across Sectors 1 to 30 while the number of workers still...