Govt to take strict actions against land mafias with the help of digital record, says PM Imran Khan
ISLAMABAD (92 News) – Prime Minister Imran Khan has said that the government will take strict action against land mafias and their facilitators with the help of digital record maintained by cadastral mapping.
In a series of tweets, he said that when the government began cadastral mapping of Pakistan to digitalise land records there was a massive resistance just like protests over Electronic Voting Machines. “Results of phase-1 survey of state lands show phenomenal state land encroachment including of forest land through land mafia-political elite connivance.”
Like protests over EVMs, when we began cadastral mapping of Pak to digitalise land records there was massive resistance. Results of Phase 1 survey of state lands shows why the resistance: phenomenal state land encroachment incl of forest land thru land mafia-pol elite connivance. pic.twitter.com/wfIF99CFJV
— Imran Khan (@ImranKhanPTI) November 21, 2021
The Prime Minister said that the most shocking facts to come out are huge total value of all encroached state land in three major cities which is approximately worth of 5595 billion rupees.
With this accurate digital record we will now take action against these land mafias & their facilitators.
— Imran Khan (@ImranKhanPTI) November 21, 2021
“The approximately value of encroached forest land is 1869 billion rupees. This has aggravated Pakistan's existing lack of sufficient forest cover,” he added.
