Govt lands worth Rs.61.54 m retrieved on orders of the ombudsman Punjab

Our Correspondent
LAHORE: On orders of Ombudsman Punjab Maj (r) Azam Suleman Khan, the Vehari administration, while taking action on public complaints, has retrieved 26 kanal land from illegal occupants, while another 15 acres of government land has been auctioned to fetch 30 million rupees to government kitty.
This was stated by the spokesman of the Office of the Ombudsman Punjab in a statement issued on Thursday.
The spokesman noted that the involvement of the ombudsman’s office in public complaints resulted in the retrieval of a total of 47 kanal state land in Bahawalnagar and the amount of the crop has also been deposited in the treasury. In a similar development, a 4.17 kanal piece of land has been recovered by the administration in Gujranwala after the ombudsman’s office interceded on a public complaint. Likewise, illegal encroachments, worth one million rupees, have been cleared in Mianwali to restore public passage after the ombudsman’s office interacted in the public interest, the spokesman mentioned.