'MCL committed to maintain Lahore's beauty, cleanliness'.

LAHORE -- Metropolitan Corporation Lahore (MCL) is all committed to maintain cleanliness and beauty of the capital city of Punjab and to this effect, the Corporation is carrying out anti-encroachment operations regularly on main city roads and markets, besides demolishing illegal structures including building, plazas and other commercial constructions in the various parts of the provincial capital.

The MCL spokesman told reporter here on Sunday that around six operations were carried out against the encroachers on roads and markets last week.

The MCL also imposed a total of Rs 104,600 as fine and shifted 36 truck-loads of confiscated belongings of these encroachers to its junkyard.

He said that Commissioner Lahore Division Zulfiqar Ahmed Ghuman had also issued clear instructions to the MCL officers of all nine zones of provincial capital to gear up anti-encroachment drive and make the city clean and encroachment-free.

Anti-encroachment operations, he maintained, were mostly conducted on major roads and congested areas of the city including Shah Alam Market, Anarkali, Ichra Bazaar, Sanda, Qainchi, Ferozpur Road, Karim Block, Yateem Khana Chowk, Dholanwal, Moon Market, Mcleod Road, Bohar Chowk, Landa Bazaar...