Ludhiana, May 19 -- Nearly two months after the Punjab assembly's committee on local bodies flagged the disappearance of 80 GPS-enabled e-rickshaws, the Ludhiana municipal corporation (MC) has yet to take concrete action to trace the missing vehicles or fix accountability for the lapse.

The issue first came to light during an on-site inspection at the central workshop on Hambran Road on February 21 when the assembly committee found that 80 out of the 350 e-rickshaws, distributed to sanitation workers under the 15th Finance Commission in 2023, were missing. These vehicles were specifically procured for dry waste collection and came equipped with GPS trackers to ensure accountability and monitoring.

The e-rickshaws were purchased at a cos...