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PR to lease out its idle land for constructing 50 hotels
ISLAMABAD—Pakistan Railways has decided to lease out its idle land for
establishing 50 hotels, it is learnt.
Sources told Online that the lease would be offered pieces of land for
construction of hotels and the parties would not be permitted to use the
land for purpose other than the specified one.
They said that the revenue generated through leasing out its commercial
sites would be spent on up gradation of Pakistan Railways Carriage
factories.
They said that Pakistan Railway would lease out its land located in
Rawalpindi Division: Goods Approach Road, Rwp; Taxila Cantt; Havelian;
Gujar Khan; Sargodha; Jehleum, Gujar Khan, Haripur, CDL Workshop,Rwp;
Karachi Division: Hyderabad; IOW Bungalow, Hyderabad; Opposite Habib
Hotel, Hyderabad; Mirpur Khas; Sehwan; near Goods Shed Kalapul, Karachi;
D-Area Kalapul main Korangi Road, Karachi Cantt; Peshawar Division:
Kohat; Jaranwala; Ghakkar; Tobatek Singh; Eminabad; Kathala; Mammu
Kanjan; Okara; Nankana Sahib; Multan Division: Aziz Hotel Chowk, Multan
cantt; Bahawalpur; Jhang Saddar; D.G.Khan, Leiah; Shorkot Cantt;
Khanewal; Sahiwal; Arifwala; Sukkur Division: Bunder Colony, Sukkur;
Rahim Yar Khan; Shikarpur; Sadiqabad; Quetta Division: Opposite Railway
Station, Quetta and Jinnah Road, Quetta.
They said that the total land owned by Pakistan Railways is 167690 acre,
out of which 126425 acre is being operationalized and 16273 acre will be
made use in future.
Commercial land owned by Pakistan Railways is 3672.75 acre, residential
is 5247.06 acre, land for agriculture use is 7046.92 acre and leased
land is 5682.02 acre.
During the last decade, they said that land mafia illegally occupied
3343.25 acres of commercial, residential and agricultural land belonging
to Pakistan Railways (PR) in the country.
They said that the PR Land, estimated to be worth more than several
billion rupees, was now in the hands of Katchi Abadis or influential
people who had founded slums on them. Despite valiant efforts, they said
that PR had only managed to take back 1654.092 acres of land.—Online |
