Ludhiana, March 17 -- Questions are being raised over possible financial mismanagement in the municipal corporation's sanitation planning, as the civic body is simultaneously pushing ahead with multi-crore mechanised sweeping tenders while also proposing to purchase new cleaning machines and recruit additional sanitation workers. Officials within the corporation say the parallel proposals could lead to duplication of expenditure involving tens of crores of public funds.

According to civic body officials familiar with the matter, the MC is planning to float mechanised road sweeping tenders for different stretches of city roads.

One proposal involves sweeping around 126 km of roads

with an estimated cost of nearly Rs.18 crore, while anot...