PESHAWAR: Noticing unlawful building and construction activities being carried out in assigned woodlands in Makhnial area of Haripur district as well as the acquisition and sale of forestland for industrial functions, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister Mahmood Khan has guided authorities to immediately impose a ban on all types of building activities in the area.

The chief minister, who chaired a top-level meeting right here on Monday, also got the charge of Area 144 to this result as well as its strict execution.

According to a main statement, the authorities were asked to take rigorous activity under Section 188 of the Pakistan Panel Code against those who violated Section.

Mr Mahmood got the immediate transfer of the appropriate team for carelessness towards their duties.

Concerns order for transfer of personnel over neglect

Remarkably, sources said that a policeman, who was charge-sheeted in 3 queries, was let off, while the officials, who had helped as well as carried out the inquiries, were moved.

“Unfortunately, 2 officials, that remain in Grade 17 as well as Quality 16, as well as assisted in questions against the land grabbers, were apparently made scapegoat and transferred, and also among the prime suspects got off the hook,” claimed one authorities privy to the conference.

He claimed that when the department was about to start disciplinary process against an elderly official of Abbottabad region taking into account three queries in Makhnial, it could not be done as he had actually moved the high court’s Abbottabad bench, which got the keeping of the status on the issue.

One more official stated that ‘very significant people’ had acquired lands in Makhnial woodlands and they had actually acted very technically so that no legal action could be taken against them.

He said that the government had also entailed the Study of Pakistan for the demarcation of the forests, yet the local individuals went to the court.

“Head Of State Imran Khan lately paid attention to the unlawful construction activities in Makhnial area that triggered the rural government to launch action versus encroachers,” he said, adding that enormous concrete framework had been elevated in the location.

The Makhnial forest sub-division stayed a hub of official features for the Billion Tree Tsunami, the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf government’s flagship afforestation task.

Head Of State Imran Khan and also other worldwide very important people had actually checked out Makhnial for vineyard tasks, however land infringement in the designated Guzara woodlands went undetected.

The provincial government had actually made up committee included elderly policemans of the woodland division in 2020 to perform query right into the conversion of substantial swathes of endangered woodlands in Makhnial Guzara woodlands beside Islamabad’s Margalla Hills by land designers and also contractors.

The query committee had actually repaired obligation on senior authorities of the forest division, that purportedly promoted land programmers to illegally cut down trees and encroached on the marked woodlands.

Infringement in Makhnial forests was determined with the help of the Geographic Information System and field gos to.

The official documents had exposed that land programmers had illegally occupied around 15.75 hectares (38.92 acres) of forest covered location, besides immoral felling of conifer trees.

The board has actually determined a total amount of 6 land programmers, who have actually encroached on the marked forests in Makhnial.

A designer in the name of Resources Hill has about encroached on 2.6 hectares in Kotla Guzara forests, Haider Residential or commercial property on 0.45 hectares in Hariala, Haroon Private Arrive on 0.4 hectares in Nilan Bhotu Reserved woodlands, Highland Hotel New Home on 3.4 hectares in Kotla Guzara woodlands, New Monal on 8.5 hectares in Kotla Guzara woodlands and Zara Lodge on 0.4 hectares in Firozpur Get Woodlands.

The main statement claimed that CM Mahmood Khan asked the departments worried to develop an approach to ensure the conservation of Makhnial forests.

He guided the local government department to launch strict activity against the pertinent tehsil local policeman of Haripur obvious the issuance of prohibited NOCs for the building of business structures in Guzara forests of Makhnial and refer the case to the anti-corruption establishment for investigation.

The forum decided to perform proper category, zoning or demarcation of Makhnial forests and also guided the Galyat Development Authority to finish the process within three months.

It additionally made a decision to constitute a payment containing senior authorities of the forests division, earnings department as well as Galyat Development Authority for the separation or category of Makhnial forests.

The online forum determined to enforce a ban on mutations as well as pc registries of lands in Makhnial forest areas up until the completion of classification and also separation of those woodlands.

Because the possible threats to woodlands and setting in the locations, it additionally made a decision to cancel all leases of mining in Makhnial and Khanpur locations.