GUJRAT: The government has approved establishment of at least two more police stations in the Kunjah area.

According to a notification issued by the provincial home department on Jan 3, the Mungowal police check post of Kunjah police has been upgraded to the police station after approval by the cabinet’s sub-committee on law and order recently.

Another police station has been set up in Industrial Estate phase II, covering most of the areas currently under Kunjah and some of the Rehmania police stations.

Though the phase II of the industrial area is yet to be established but the site for the project has already been selected near Saroki village along Upper Jhelum Canal near Kunjah while major infrastructural uplift projects are being executed in the said area as per the recommendations of the senior leadership of PML-Q.

District Police Officer Umar Salamat said the Mungowal Police Station would start working in the current building of the police post whereas six kanal land had also been allocated in the proposed site plan of the phase II of the industrial estate. He said with the addition of two more stations, the number of police stations had now reached 25 in the district.

The official sources said in case of the proposed upgrade of Gujrat district into a division, the offices for the new division are supposed to be established in the industrial estate area.

They said Punjab Assembly Speaker Chaudhry Parvez Elahi and Federal Minister for Water Resources Moonis Elahi had discussed the matter of division with Chief Minister Usman Buzdar during in a meeting on Monday.

Published in Dawn, January 7th, 2022

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