Ludhiana, Oct. 4 -- Ahead of the next week's Finance and Contract Committee (F&CC) meeting, the Ludhiana Municipal Corporation (MC) has readied nearly 500 new development proposals. These include road repair works, laying of sewer lines, installation of LED streetlights and several other civic improvement tasks in different parts of the city.

While the proposals aim to improve infrastructure in various wards, questions are being raised over the implementation of already approved projects. In the last three F&CC meetings alone, over 600 development proposals have been passed. However, insiders in the civic body reveal that most of them have remained only on paper, with little to no work visible on the ground.

A senior official in the MC,...