{"id":51293,"date":"2019-04-13T10:00:37","date_gmt":"2019-04-13T05:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/blog\/?p=51293"},"modified":"2019-04-12T16:54:44","modified_gmt":"2019-04-12T11:54:44","slug":"senate-body-for-amending-railway-laws","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/senate-body-for-amending-railway-laws.html","title":{"rendered":"Senate body for amending railway laws"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Islamabad: A Senate panel has suggested making amendments to the railway laws in a bid to make the Railways Police more effective, a news source reported.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/railways-retrieves-land-worth-billions-from-encroachers.html\">Railways retrieves land worth billions from encroachers<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Participants at a meeting of the Senate Standing Committee on Pakistan Railways, presided over by Senator Asad Khan Junejo, called for reviewing the department\u2019s lease policy.<\/p>\n<p>In response, Inspector General Railways Police Wajid Zia said that utmost efforts were being make to bring revolutionary changes in Pakistan Railways and its affiliated departments.<\/p>\n<p>He said that the railways retrieved 4,000 acres of encroached land valued at PKR 15.7 billion over the past five years. He informed that the department owns a total of 170,976 acres of land.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read<\/strong>:\u00a0<a class=\"row-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/construction-of-housing-societies-on-railways-land-banned.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Construction of housing societies on railways land banned<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Zia said that efforts were being made to recover 3,179 acres of railway land in different cities. Out of 3,179 acres, he said, 1,574 acres of land remain under illegal occupation in Lahore, followed by 514 acres in Karachi, 528 acres in Sukkur, 248 acres in Multan, and 225 acres in Rawalpindi.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Islamabad: A Senate panel has suggested making amendments to the railway laws in a bid to make the Railways Police more effective, a news source reported. Read: Railways retrieves land worth billions from encroachers Participants at a meeting of the Senate Standing Committee on Pakistan Railways, presided over by Senator Asad Khan Junejo, called for reviewing the department\u2019s lease policy. In response, Inspector General Railways Police Wajid Zia said that utmost efforts were being make to bring revolutionary changes in Pakistan Railways and its affiliated departments. He said that the railways retrieved 4,000 acres of encroached land valued at PKR 15.7 billion over the past five years. He informed that the department owns a total of 170,976 acres of land. Read:\u00a0Construction of housing societies on railways land banned Zia said that efforts were being made to recover 3,179 acres of railway land in different cities. Out of 3,179 acres, he said, 1,574 acres of land remain under illegal occupation in Lahore, followed by 514 acres in Karachi, 528 acres in Sukkur, 248 acres in Multan, and 225 acres in Rawalpindi.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":67,"featured_media":42126,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[11285],"persona":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-51293","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"tag-senate-body-for-amending-railway-laws"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Senate body for amending railway laws - Zameen News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Islamabad: A Senate panel has suggested making amendments to the railway laws in a bid to make the Railways Police more effective, a news source reported.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/senate-body-for-amending-railway-laws.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Senate body for amending railway laws - Zameen News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Islamabad: A Senate panel has suggested making amendments to the railway laws in a bid to make the Railways Police more effective, a news source reported.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/senate-body-for-amending-railway-laws.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Pakistan Real Estate News &amp; 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