Lahore: The Punjab Government has decided to develop model graveyards across Punjab to provide easier burial-related services to the citizens. Reportedly, the project will be started from Lahore and later on the model graveyards will be built in Rawalpindi, Multan, Sargodha and Faisalabad.
According to a news source, the first model graveyard in Lahore will span 89-Kanals and 10-Marlas of land in Mauza Rakh Cheddu near Ferozepur Road. It is expected that the ground-breaking of the model graveyard in Lahore will be held in the last week of Ramadan.
The news source added that a piece of land for the development of model graveyard in Multan had also been identified and the Board of Revenue had been issued orders for the transfer of land to the authorities concerned.