Ludhiana, June 20 -- Nearly two years after identifying more than 400 commercial establishments operating from basements and issuing notices to their owners, the municipal corporation (MC) has failed to take any follow-up action against the alleged violations.

Municipal town planner Vijay Kumar said the civic body had sought status reports from zonal assistant town planners (ATPs) after the notices were served, but the exercise did not progress further.

"We had asked the zonal ATPs to report the status of these notices. Only one of them submitted a report and no action was taken after the notices were served," Kumar said, adding that the matter would be looked into.

The issue came under scrutiny after activist Arvind Sharma approached ...