India, Aug. 10 -- The Municipal Corporation of Gurugram on Friday held a meeting with 57 newly appointed assistant sanitation inspectors, urging them to perform their duties with diligence, responsibility, and complete transparency.

"You have been given an opportunity to serve in a government department-consider it a mission and set a positive example through your work. Any negligence or laxity in duty would invite strict action," MCG commissioner Pradeep Dahiya told the new officials, who were recently recruited through the Haryana Skill Employment Corporation.

The sanitation inspectors were appointed amid the rising concerns in the city and residents widely sharing pictures and videos of garbage piles, blocked drains, and overflowing ...