Our Correspondent Multan
District government succeeded to retrieve 22,746 out of a total 51445 kanals land worth billions of rupees spreading across the division from 2586 land grabbers here in couple of days.
28, 699 kanal land was left to be retrieved because of litigation and taking of stay orders by the occupiers, said Commissioner Javed Akhtar Mahmood while talking to media on Friday.
As soon as the certain legal hitches would be removed, we would retrieve every single inch of the occupied land, he added. As per bifurcation, 2646 kanal land was retrieved in Multan, 2288 in Vehari, 13078 in Khanewal and 7022 kanal from district Lodhran, said the report available with the agency.
The remaining parts of the land set to be retrieved in upcoming days including 3213 kanals in Multan, 1552 in Vehari, 16331 Khanewal and 8050 kanals in Lodhran, added the report.
An estimated measure of 22142 kanals land was retrieved from agricultural area, 601 kanals residential site and three kanals as commercial part of land.