LAHORE: In its operations launched in various parts of the city, the Lahore Development Authority (LDA) on Thursday demolished and sealed various buildings for flouting building and commercial regulations.
The Pakistan Railway teams also launched similar operations within its jurisdictions.
According to a spokesman for the authority, the LDA town planning teams, along with enforcement wing and police, demolished a building, comprising four commercial shops, near Canal Berg Society orange line station, Multan Road, an illegally constructed structure near Multan Chungi, illegal commercial building at Sabzazar H Block, a commercial construction in Sabzazar C Block, a commercial building in Kareem Block, Iqbal Town, and a restaurant in Rachna Block, Iqbal Town. The teams also sealed a clinic in College Block, Iqbal town and some others in Kareem Block, Iqbal Town on account of land-use violation
In Faisal Town, Garden Town and PEECO Road, the teams sealed one hair salon, a boys’ hostel, an IT office, a commercial building and illegal addition/alterations in the building. The teams also demolished two illegal constructions in the area.
A team of Pakistan Railways enforcement wing along with the railways police conducted a grand anti-encroachment operation from the railway crossing Mughalpura till Jallo railway crossing–about 15km in length–and bulldozed the illegal structures constructed in the form of shops, kiosks, rooms, garage and various forms of small-scale factories and wooden-stalls from the railways land.
According to a spokesman, the operation was carried out under supervision of SHO Railways Mughalpura Inspector Mazahar Abbas. A heavy contingent of railways police were deployed at the site and the structures were razed with the help of the railways staff.
During the operation, illegally constructed structures on 15 kanals land of railways, amounting Rs150m, were razed and the retrieved land was handed over to the railways administration.
The operation continued from morning to evening. “We are leaving no stone unturned to bring down all illegal constructions in the vicinity of railways and also extending full support in the form of security and registration of the FIRs under the Railways Act 1890,” said PR police IG Dr Rao Sardar in a statement.
Published in Dawn, August 26th, 2022
