About Military Lands & Cantonments
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The Department of Military Lands and Cantonments is managing Defence Lands and Cantonment
Boards all over Pakistan. ML&C Department attends to and promotes the interest of more than
4.7 Million people, handles budgets amounting to approximately Rs. 35 billion which is
increasing on a yearly basis, defends over 6,000 litigation cases related to land and
municipal matters and manages a human resource base of nearly 20,000 employees.
Defence lands and cantonments have existed since British Rule. The first Cantonment was
established back in 1765 at Barrackpore. Pakistan inherited 23 Cantonment Boards. Keeping in
view the requirement of defence services, the number of Cantonment Boards have increased
from time to time and now there are 44 Cantonment Boards.