Overview
- Payments to underperforming Clean Punjab contractors have been suspended with contracts ordered into review and potential retendering.
- Notices and reprimands were issued over stray dog bites and open manhole deaths, with deputy commissioners to be removed after a third warning.
- Operational directives mandate daily washing of garbage bins, construction of walled waste enclosures, and exemplary cleanliness at bus stands and other public spaces.
- Round-the-clock CCTV will document encroachments as authorities remove obstructive pushcarts, require written assurances from markets, and authorize arrests for violations.
- Further orders include ensuring free medicines in government hospitals, maintaining electric buses, fixing dangerous hanging wires, marking road lanes, fining noncompliant housing societies, and requiring EV chargers at new petrol pumps.