India, June 23 -- Punjab local government minister Harjot Singh Bains on Tuesday ordered the issuance of a show-cause notice to Moga municipal commissioner Gurwinder Singh Chahal following an early morning surprise inspection that exposed poor cleanliness standards across the city.

During his on-ground assessment, Bains interacted with local residents and spotted several open garbage points, directly flouting the sanitation benchmarks set under the state government's Mission Clean Punjab initiative.

Stating that there is zero tolerance for such negligence, the minister said that the people of Punjab deserve better and that erring officials will be held accountable. He described the action in Moga as a precedent, asserting that cleanline...