RHD land recovery drive proves futile

Despite serious efforts by the government to reclaim grabbed lands of the Roads and Highways Department (RHD) from illegal occupants across the country, the progress in many cases is very slow as officials concerned cannot go against influential people reportedly backed by the ruling party.
RHD sources said about 4,854.717 acres of lands have so far been reclaimed through demolishing 36,6770 illegal structures in nine zones of RHD from 2007 to 2014.
However, much more RHD lands are yet to be reclaimed due to impediments by different influential quarters, including ‘ruling party men’, the sources said.
Besides, the recently reclaimed RHD lands are also being reoccupied by grabbers in connivance with the officials working at the field level, they said, according to a news agency.