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GUJRANWALA, Feb 16: An inquiry was ordered on Thursday against grabbing of the irrigation department’s agricultural land by land mafia.
Reports said a housing society grabbed the land of the irrigation department and later sold it under the housing scheme.
The department approached the district coordination officer who ordered the revenue department to identity the land and got it vacated from the land mafia.
Some land of the irrigation department was also occupied by another housing society a few years ago, but it was later evacuated by the district administration.
PLF MOOT: A divisional convention of the People’s Lawyers Forum will be held here on
Feb 28.
This was stated by Advocate Shaikh Eizad Masood, Khurshed Ahmad Sodhi, Suleman Khokhar, Ilyas Rehan bar association president Malik Mehdi Hasan, Mian Jamil Akhtar and others at a meeting held here on Thursday.
sugar outlets: Citizens have demanded an increase in the number of utility stores in and around the city following worsening of the sugar crisis.
At a meeting held here on Thursday, nazims, naib nazims, councillors and citizens said three utility stores in the city were inadequate for 1.5 million population. They said no store was working in Kamoki, Eminabad, Qila Dedar Singh, Alipur Chattha, Rahwali and Ghakkhar Town.
Expressing their anguish over the rising sugar prices, they said it was sheer humiliation and wastage of time to get sugar from these three stores in long queues.
They pointed out that police had baton-charged people in front of a utility store in Wazirabad a few days ago as a result of which many women sustained injuries.
They said millers and hoarders were responsible for the rising price of sugar.
