Report by Engineering Post
Pakistan Railways was continuing its anti-encroachment drive throughout the country to retrieve its encroached land along its network but the progress seems to be quite slow result-wise.
According to the facts and figures now available from the official sources, Pakistan Railways has retrieved only 2826 acres of its encroached land during the last six financial years 2020-21 to 2025-26. The retrieved land retrieved so far is valued at Rs 21.178 billion.
Pakistan Railways owns a total of 168858 acres of land out of which about 70 percent is being used for operational purposes across the country.
Around 9.1 percent of Railways land has been leased out while 4.97 percent continues to remain under illegal and unauthorized occupation by private individuals and 2.36 percent was under forcible possession of the government departments.
Pakistan Railways was leasing out its land through competitive and non-competitive bidding processes under its Property and Land Rules 2025.
