Land worth Rs220m recovered: CDGL

CDGL anti-encroachment drive claimes to have cleared 903 kanals of land worth Rs220 million.

LAHORE:

The District Government of Lahore on Monday on the forth day of its anti-encroachment drive claimed to have cleared 903 kanals of land worth Rs220 million.

Besides, the administrations of nine towns removed encroachments along 35.5 kilometres roads, demolishing 541 ramps, 38 shops, and 356 shades.

As many as 28 truck loads of equipment was moved shifted to the CDGL warehouses.

The Revenue Department cleared 17 kanals land in Mehmood Booti (Ring Road) worth Rs130 million, 886 kanals worth Rs90 million in Khudpur, a village near Multan Road.

Wagha Town administration removed encroachments along six km from Quaid-i-Azam Interchange to BRB Canal; Shalimar Town removed encroachments along three km from GT Road Cooperative Square to Aik Moria Pull; Allam Iqbal Town removed encroachments along three km from Thokar Niaz Baig to Ali Razabad; Data Gunj Baksh Town removed encroachments along six km from Nela Gumbad, Anarkali to Urdu bazaar; Nishter Town removed encroachments along 1.5km in Jahangir Park, Ferozpur Road; Aziz Bhatti Town removed encroachments along two km from Taj Bagh Scheme to Tajpura; Ravi Town removed encroachments along one km from GT Road, Shahdra, to Ring Road and Samanabad Town removed encroachments along four km from Main Multan Road.

Published in The Express Tribune, March 15^th, 2011.