Railways Retrieves 177.889 Acres Land During 2019

Sumaira FH Published April 05, 2020 | 02:20 PM

ISLAMABAD, Apr 5 (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 5th Apr, 2020 ) :Pakistan Railways has retrieved as many as 177.889 acres of its precious land in the eight divisions during the anti-encroachment operation conducted last year.

"The regular anti�-encroachment operations are being carried out at all railway divisions with assistance of Railway Police and District Administration," an official in the Ministry of Railways told APP.

Giving division wise details, he said that Pakistan Railways has recovered 35.642 acres in Peshawar Division, 4.969 in Rawalpindi Division, 19.827 in Lahore Division, 0.512 in Mughalpura, 63.565 in Multan Division, 8.357 in Sukkur Division, 39.650 in Karachi Division and 5.367 acres in Quetta Division.

Regarding the Circular Railway Karachi, he said that 37.70 kilometer out of 43.12 Km Right of Way (ROW) has been recovered from encroachment and remaining 5.42 Km would be recovered soon.

The official said that Pakistan Railway was fully on board with Government of Sindh for which measures were being taken to clear the land of the land of Circular Railway Karachi.

He said the process regarding shifting and rehabilitation of affectees would be supported by Pakistan Railways in all steps which would be taken by Government of Sindh.

"Pakistan Railways has owned 167,690 acres land across the country out of which Punjab had 90,326 acres, Sindh 39,428 acres, Balochistan 28,228 acres and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa had 9,708 acres," he added.

He said the Geographic Information System (GIS) survey had also been conducted under the project of computerization of railway land records in which all the encroachments and leases etc had been recorded in the Pakistan Railways Land Management Information System (PRLMS) software.

The official said the database was under verification and being compiled.

For the last two years, he said Pakistan Railways has been doing its utmost to get the problem of land encroachment resolved where thousands of acres of land have been occupied for commercial, residential and agriculture purposes.