Railways repossesses real estate in Pindi
The Pakistan Railways (PR) has retrieved over seven acres of land worth over Rs116 million from encroachers in the Rawalpindi Division during its operation against land grabbers, a spokesperson shared on Sunday.
The spokesperson mentioned that the ministry has retrieved as many as 180.754 acres of land in eight divisions of the country in its anti-encroachment drive conducted during 2020. “Regular anti-encroachment operations are being carried out at all railway divisions with assistance from the Railways Police and District Administration,” he shared.
Pakistan Railways owns 167,690 acres of land across the country out of which Punjab has 90,326 acres, Sindh 39,428 acres, Balochistan 28,228 acres and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa has 9,708 acres, he added.
The official said that the Geographic Information System (GIS) survey had also been conducted under the project of computerisation of railway land records in which all the encroachments and leases had been recorded in the Pakistan Railways Land Management Information System (PRLMS) software.
He further stated that for the last two years, PR has been doing its best to deal with the issue of land encroachment where thousands of acres of land had been occupied for commercial, residential and agricultural purposes.
The operation was launched under the supervision of Divisional Superintendent of Rawalpindi Division Munawar Shah on the direction of Railways Minister Azam Khan Swati. DNA
Published in The Express Tribune, January 4th, 2021.