Faisalabad areas ridden of encroachments

The district administration removed encroachments from various colonies and confiscated the material used for encroaching the sites.

A spokesman for the administration said in Faisalabad on Monday a vigorous campaign was launched against encroachments in Faisalabad.

Deputy Commissioner Ali Anan Qamar was supervising the drive against the encroachers.

The DC visited Muslim Colony, Warispura, People's Colony No. 1, Muhammad Chowk and other areas where the teams of municipal corporation under the supervision of the district government officers removed encroachments and restored the original shape of bazaars, streets and roads.

He said that there was a 60-foot-wide bazaar in People's Colony No.1 which had been encroached upon and reduced to 30 feet. The residents and shopkeepers had constructed illegal ramps and parking areas in the bazaar which not only damaged the beauty of the passageway but also created numerous problems for passersby. Similarly, people also encroached the area along the wall of Sabria Sirajia School and the MC teams removed the encroachments with the help of heavy machinery.

He said in first phase, the drive was launched in markets and bazaars and scope of the operation would be expanded to residential areas also in the second phase.

Published in The Express Tribune, July 11^th, 2023.