{"id":57016,"date":"2019-10-31T10:00:55","date_gmt":"2019-10-31T05:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/blog\/?p=57016"},"modified":"2019-10-30T18:28:41","modified_gmt":"2019-10-30T13:28:41","slug":"auqaf-department-to-list-down-its-property-to-be-used-for-public-facilities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/auqaf-department-to-list-down-its-property-to-be-used-for-public-facilities.html","title":{"rendered":"Auqaf Department to list down its property to be used for public facilities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lahore: The Auqaf and Religious Affairs Department of Punjab is in the process of identifying its spare properties \u2014 to be used for the development of several school and hospital facilities, a news source reported. This measure comes as a follow-up on Prime Minister (PM) Imran Khan\u2019s commitment towards utilizing &#8216;shrine land&#8217; for the construction of these facilities.<\/p>\n<p>Read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/south-punjabs-rural-areas-to-get-basic-facilities.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">South Punjab\u2019s rural areas to get basic facilities<\/a><\/p>\n<p>According to statistics shared by the department, of the 77,000 acres of property it owns, only 24,000 acres of land is free of encroachments. The remaining land is in illegal possession of the land mafia. It was also revealed that the Auqaf and Religious Affairs Department has an annual income of over PKR 300 million.<\/p>\n<p>Read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/auqaf-department-asked-to-retrieve-land.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Auqaf Department asked to retrieve land<\/a><\/p>\n<p>As per the law, if the Government of Pakistan acquires the department\u2019s land for the construction of such facilities, it either has to provide alternate land to the department as a form of compensation, or buy the land at a fair market value.<\/p>\n<p>Read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/govt-to-build-colleges-hospitals-on-retrieved-land.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Govt to build colleges, hospitals on retrieved land<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sources within the Auqaf Department have revealed that there have been several instances in the past \u00a0when the provincial and federal governments acquired its land for setting up <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/shelter-homes-in-darbars-planned-for-lahore-other-cities.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">shelter homes<\/a> and other infrastructural development projects. However, the department is yet to receive the payment it is owed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lahore: The Auqaf and Religious Affairs Department of Punjab is in the process of identifying its spare properties \u2014 to be used for the development of several school and hospital facilities, a news source reported. This measure comes as a follow-up on Prime Minister (PM) Imran Khan\u2019s commitment towards utilizing &#8216;shrine land&#8217; for the construction of these facilities. Read:\u00a0South Punjab\u2019s rural areas to get basic facilities According to statistics shared by the department, of the 77,000 acres of property it owns, only 24,000 acres of land is free of encroachments. The remaining land is in illegal possession of the land mafia. It was also revealed that the Auqaf and Religious Affairs Department has an annual income of over PKR 300 million. Read:\u00a0Auqaf Department asked to retrieve land As per the law, if the Government of Pakistan acquires the department\u2019s land for the construction of such facilities, it either has to provide alternate land to the department as a form of compensation, or buy the land at a fair market value. Read:\u00a0Govt to build colleges, hospitals on retrieved land Sources within the Auqaf Department have revealed that there have been several instances in the past \u00a0when the provincial and federal governments&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":57017,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[13702],"persona":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-57016","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"tag-auqaf-department-to-list-down-its-property-to-be-used-for-public-facilities"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Auqaf Department to list down its property to be used for public facilities - Zameen News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Lahore: The Auqaf and Religious Affairs Department of Punjab is in the process of identifying its spare properties \u2014 to be used for the development of\" \/>\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\/auqaf-department-to-list-down-its-property-to-be-used-for-public-facilities.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Auqaf Department to list down its property to be used for public facilities - Zameen News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Lahore: The Auqaf and Religious Affairs Department of Punjab is in the process of identifying its spare properties \u2014 to be used for the development of\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/auqaf-department-to-list-down-its-property-to-be-used-for-public-facilities.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Pakistan Real Estate News &amp; 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