Ludhiana, Jan. 3 -- Opposition councillors from the Congress and Shiromani Akali Dal on Friday objected to what they termed "arbitrary and frequent" transfers of sanitation staff from their wards, alleging that the repeated reshuffling was adversely affecting cleanliness across the city.

The councillors reached the municipal corporation's Zone D office in Sarabha Nagar and later met municipal commissioner Aaditya Dachalwal raising concerns that sanitation workers were being moved every few months, sometimes even before completing two months in a ward. They argued that such frequent transfers disrupted routine sanitation work and made it difficult to maintain accountability.

The councillors said that when workers familiar with a ward's r...