130-kanal land retrieved on Punjab ombudsman's orders.

LAHORE -- A total of 130 kanals and four marlas of state land worth Rs 25.01 million has been retrieved from illegal occupants in different districts on the orders of the Punjab ombudsman.

A statement issued here on Friday, a spokesman for the Punjab ombudsman said that 11-marla land worth Rs 1.650 million of a government school in Mouza Lakhanwal (Gujrat district) had been retrieved from an illegal occupant. The authorities concerned also released funds for construction of the school boundary wall, the spokesman added.

The interference of the provincial ombudsman also resulted in retrieval of 37-kanal government land worth Rs 17.343 million in Kot Addu tehsil.

In another development, the demarcation of 52-kanal land worth Rs 7.8 million of a Mianwali-based complainant, Kalu Khan, was done on the orders of the ombudsman, he added.

The ombudsman also helped retrieve 1.16-kanal public thoroughfare. The action was taken on a...