It is an unprecedented example that the present government has completed record developmental projects and distributed 100,000 acres of state land and 1,14,000 plots of five marlas among the landless farmers and shelter-less people in Punjab during the last five years.
Punjab Colonies Minister, Mian Manazar Ali Ranjha expressed this while talking to different delegations here on Wednesday, disclosed an official. He said the government has taken concrete steps for providing maximum relief to the people in every field.
Ranjaha said that the state land provided to the farmers at the ratio of 12.5 acres to each family is more than Rs 15 billion in total. "Roofs have been provided to the thousand of families by allotment of 5-marla plots. Second phase of these schemes would be announced soon during which 150,000 five marla plots and 100,000 of land would be distributed. Distribution of 250,000 plots would help housing sector to overcome its needs," he added.
The minister also said that the government is implementing a policy to retrieve the land from "qabza mafia" and allot it to the landless formers. This policy would bring huge area of land under cultivation, which would increase production help reduce unemployment in the rural areas of Punjab, he added.