Ludhiana, March 5 -- The Ludhiana Municipal Corporation (MC) has submitted the details related to e-rickshaws to the Punjab Vidhan Sabha Committee for Local Bodies, but around 80 e-rickshaws are still untraceable, people familiar with the matter said. The issue has already been highlighted in a previous report submitted to the same committee.

Faced with growing scrutiny, MC officials have now pinned the responsibility for the missing e-rickshaws on several sanitary inspectors. These officials have been given strict instructions to locate and recover the e-rickshaws at the earliest or be prepared to face departmental action, including possible financial recovery from their salaries.

The e-rickshaws were purchased by the civic body as par...