Railways retrieved 180.754 acre land during last year.

ISLAMABAD -- Ministry of Railways has retrieved 180.754 acres of its land in eight divisions of the country in its anti-encroachment drive which conducted during last year.

"Regular anti-encroachment operations are being carried out at all railway divisions with assistance of Railways Police and District Administration," an official of the Ministry of Railways told reporter.

Giving division wise details, he said, Pakistan Railways had recovered 36.642 acres in Peshawar Division, 5.257 in Rawalpindi Division, 19.827 in Lahore Division, 0.512 in Mughalpura, 64.565 in Multan Division, 8.357 in Sukkur Division, 39.650 in Karachi Division and 5.367 acres in Quetta Division.

"Pakistan Railways has owned 167,690 acres land across the country out of which Punjab has 90,326 acres, Sindh 39,428 acres, Balochistan 28,228 acres and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa has 9,708 acres," he added.

He said the Geographic Information System (GIS) survey had also been conducted under the project of computerization of...