LAHORE: A Railways anti-encroachment squad demolished around 15 houses constructed unlawfully along the railway track in the Gari Shahu area on Tuesday.

The PR squad launched the operation early in the morning and razed the structures within two hours.

The residents complained they were evicted without any notice, but the officials said they were asked many a time to vacate the land.

Meanwhile, three teams of the City District Government of Lahore removed several encroachments, retrieving state land measuring one kanal and six marlas.

QUACKS HELD: A city district government’s team on Tuesday got two quacks arrested for running hospitals in Ghaziabad locality.

According to a spokesman for the district administration, the team led by the district officer (Monitoring and Inquiries) raided Ashraf Surgical Hospital and Ibrahim Welfare Clinic and confiscated spurious medicines stored there.

The team sealed the hospitals besides getting the quacks arrested.

PLAN: The CDGL on Tuesday issued an action plan for launching an anti-dengue drive in the city.

According to the plan, a field monitoring team will prepare the lists of the houses to be visited for dengue surveillance purpose in the next 10 days.

The sites where the dengue larvae will be detected will be declared as hot spots by keeping them and adjoining places into focus for insecticide spray and cleanliness.

All town municipal administrations will be responsible for ensuring cleanliness at all warehouses, junkyards, graveyards, tyre shops, motor workshops and open places.

The plan recommends elimination of mosquito and its larvae through mechanical, chemical and biological ways.