Chandigarh: Under fire over sanitation staff deployment, MC seeks report

During the Municipal Corporation House meeting on Friday, councillors raised concerns about disparities in the number of sanitation workers (safai karamcharis) assigned to different sectors in Chandigarh.

Municipal commissioner Amit Kumar directed officials to submit a detailed deployment report within a week for review.

According to the MC health wing's response to Ward 2 councillor Maheshinder Singh Sidhu, 1,588 safai karamcharis are deployed in Sectors 1 to 30, with 339 more workers still required.

Sector 22 has the highest deployment among residential sectors with 124 safai karamcharis, and Industrial Area Phase I has 123.

The MC health wing has requested the engineering wing to provide beat formulation based on actual road length, parking areas, and open spaces as per Solid Waste Management (SWM) Rules.