ISLAMABAD: The Sui Northern Gas Pipelines Limited (SNGPL) is going ahead with its planned suspension of gas supply to CNG filling stations and industries in Punjab from Nov 15.
The strategy has been devised under the government’s load-management plan to ensure smooth gas supply to domestic and commercial consumers. The plan likely to affect 2,000 CNG filling stations and hundreds of industrialists, giving rise to the fears of unemployment of thousands of factory workers.
On the other hand, the All Pakistan CNG Association (APCNGA) has rejected the SNGPL’s plan and said that it would increase miseries of millions of people across Punjab. According to the SNGPL plan, supply of CNG will remain suspend in Punjab from Nov 15 to March 15, 2015. However, the supply will continue in other provinces as usual.
Meanwhile, the authorities said that CNG filling stations will remain open in Punjab on Thursday for 12 hours.