Proposed demarcation: 129 Gujrat tehsil villages included in municipalties.

Byline: Waseem Ashraf Butt

GUJRAT -- Local authorities have included a huge chunk of rural areas into the municipalities of urban areas of Gujrat district.

Some 46 villages have been included into the Gujrat Municipal Corporation, stretching its limits in the proposed plan of demarcation of local bodies that has already been under process of being notified.

Though the Gujranwala commissioner, the appellant authority against the demarcation done by the respective district administration, has excluded some villages from the proposed plan but most of the rural areas have finally been included into the limits of municipalities.

Five villages surrounding the areas of Gujrat city have been excluded from the proposed plan of the GMC limits but at the same time the commissioner has accepted appeals of including five other villages into the corporation.

Gujrat Deputy Commissioner Dr Khurram Shahzad says that the expansion into the limits of the municipalities has been proposed keeping in view the future 10 years of shifting of rural population to urban centers as well as the international standards of demarcating the urban limits.

Some 46 villages have been included in the Gujrat Municipal Corporation

In the presence of a municipal corporation and two municipal committees of Jalalpur Jattan and Kunjah, the local authorities have proposed that the Mungowal union council along Gujrat-Sargodha road and Shadiwal union council have be given the status of a municipal Committee and a town committee, respectively.

At least 40 villages have been...