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About Us
CEO Message
I am delighted to launch
official website http://www.lcb.gov.pk/ of Lahore Cantt:
Board. I am optimistic that this website will benefit the
public at large in general and the Tax payers of Lahore Cantonment in
particular. Through this communication I also assure the
distinguished tax payers that Lahore cantonment is committed to provide
basic civic amenities to its residents and the judicious utilization of
the money collected on account of taxes in return. A lot has been
done in the past 4-5 years in all spheres but more is required to provide
efficient and uninterrupted quality municipal services. I assure that with
the dedicated efforts of my team under the kind guidance of President
Cantonment Board, Patronage of Commander 4 Corps and the DGML&C an era
of prosperity would usher.
Dr. Saima Shah
Cantonment Board Lahore
Introduction
History
Lahore is
undoubtedly ancient. Legend had it that it was founded by Loh, son of
Rama, the hero of the Hindu epic, the Ramayana. Some others think that the
name means Loh-awar, meaning a "Fort as strong as Iron". It waxed and
waned in importance during the
Sultanate.
Lahore came
under Muslim rule in 1206 with Qutub-ud-Din Aibak and reached its glory
during the Mughal period. As the Mughal power dwindled the
Punjab came under the sikh sway. By 1765 the city
of Lahore was partitioned
among three Sikh chieftains, Lahna Singh, Sobha Singh, and Gujar Singh. In
1799 it was captured by Ranjet Singh. The sikh period is known as darkest
period in the history of Lahore and has been referred to as a ‘melancholy
picture of fallen splendor
After the defeat of sikhs and annexation of
Lahore the British troops were stationed initially at Anarkali but later
moved to Mian Mir. It was this that became to be known as Lahore
Cantonment and was established in 1850 by Lt. Gen Sir Charles Napier. It
was a beautifully planned cantonment with wide roads, parks and well
laid-out living and unit areas. In 1968, the Cantonment limits were
extended to include a large area with an over-all rural complexion. The
Cantonment with this large extension became administratively difficult to
manage; therefore in 1998 it was bifurcated into two Cantonments: Lahore
& Walton.
OBJECTIVES/FUNCTIONS
OBLIGATORY
- So far as the funds permit, to make reasonable provision
within the Cantonment for ---
- Lighting streets and other public places;
- Watering streets and other public places;
- Cleansing streets, public places and drains, abating
nuisances and removing noxious
vegetation;
- Regulating offensive, dangerous or obnoxious trades,
callings and practices;
- Removing, on the ground of public, safety, health or
convenience, undesirable obstruction sand projections in streets and
other public places;
- Securing or removing dangerous buildings and places;
- Acquiring, maintaining, changing and regulating places for
the disposal of the dead;
- Constructing, altering and maintaining streets, culverts,
markets, slaughter-houses, latrines, privies, urinals, drains, drainage
works and sewerage works;
- Planting and maintaining trees on roadsides and other
public places;
- Providing or arranging for a sufficient supply of pure and
wholesome water, where such supply does not exist, guarding from
population water used for human consumption, and preventing polluted
water from being so used;
- registering births and deaths;
- Establishing and maintaining a system of public
vaccination;
- Establishing and maintaining or supporting public
hospitals and dispensaries, and providing public medical relief;
- Establishing and maintaining or assisting primary schools;
- Rendering assistance in extinguishing fires, and
protecting life and property when fire occurs;
- Maintaining and developing the value of property vested
in, or entrusted to the management of, the Board: and;
- Fulfilling any other obligation imposed upon it by or
under this Act or any other law for the time being in force.
DISCRETIONARY
- A Board may, within the Cantonment, make provision for:
- laying out in areas, whether previously built upon or not,
new streets, and acquiring land for that purpose and for the
construction of buildings, and compounds of buildings, to about on such
streets;
- constructing, establishing or maintaining public parks,
gardens, offices, dairies, bathing or washing places, drinking
fountains, tanks, wells, and other works of public utility;
- reclaiming unhealthy localities,
- furthering educational objects by measures other than the
establishment and maintenance of primary schools;
- taking a census and granting rewards for information which
may tend to secure the correct registration of vital statistics;
- making a survey;
- giving relief on the occurrence of local epidemics by the
establishment or maintenance of relief works or otherwise;
- securing or assisting to secure suitable places for the
carrying on of any offensive, dangerous or obnoxious trade, calling
or occupations;
- establishing and maintaining a farm or other places for
the disposal of sewerage.
- constructing, subsidizing or guaranteeing tramways or
other means of locomotion, and electric lighting or electric power
works;
- adopting any measure, other than a measure specified in
section 116 or in the foregoing provisions of this Section, likely to
promote the safety, health or convenience of the inhabitants of the
Cantonment.
- A Board may, either within or outside the cantonment, make
provision for the doing of anything on which expenditure is declared by
the Federal Government, or by the Board with the sanction of the Federal
Government, to be an appropriate charge on the Cantonment Fund.
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