The Lahore Development Authority (LDA) on Monday demolished nine constructions besides sealing seven properties in the city during an operation.
The teams, under the supervision of Chief Town Planner Azhar Ali, conducted operations against illegal constructions in Johar Town, Lahore Evenue, Wapda Town, IEP Town, Valencia Town and UET Society. Plot numbers 11, 44, 45, and 46 in Lahore Evenue, plot numbers 277/2A and 7J in Valencia Town were demolished due to illegal constructions. Farmhouses on Defence Road, plot number 2H in Johar Town, plot number 4 Block M, and plot number 12A Block F were also demolished. Plot number 227 Block A UET Society, plot number 73 Block A2, and 72 Block D2 in Wapda Town were sealed. Plot number 302 Block L, 197 Block L, 306, 307 Block L in Johar Town, and plot number 36 Block A3 in IEP Town were also sealed. The notices were issued before the properties were sealed or demolished.
Moreover, the metropolitan corporation, during its ongoing operation against encroachments, seized 98 trucks of material from the city during the last seven days. The mobile special squads had been deployed to enforce regulations, said by Administrator Metropolitan Corporation Rafia Haider. During the past seven days, more than 948 encroachments related materials had been seized while 3,233 banners and streamers were removed from main roads. As many as 87 challans were issued during the operations and special monitoring of business line-marking within designated limits was also being conducted by zonal officers, she added. Rafia said that operations in various shifts across the city would continue until permanent eradication of encroachments.
The Metropolitan Corporation Lahore (MCL) carried out an anti-encroachment operation and demolished illegal structures in the provincial capital. An MCL spokesperson told the media here on Monday that an anti-encroachment squad removed 948 encroachments last week from various locations of the city and shifted 98 truck-load of confiscated goods to the MCL junk yard. During the operation, 3,233 banners and streamers were removed and various sale points of meat for charity, popularly known as cheel gosht, were cleared. As many as 87 challans were issued to the encroachers during the move.
