KARACHI: The Pakistan’s largest industrial area, SITE, is facing the worst gas crisis due to low pressure, said Site Association of Industry (SAI) President Muhammad Jawed Bilwani.
He revealed that the SITE Industries remained without gas for 13 days in January and 43 days since October 1, 2014. He said that due to this crisis, the SITE industry is on the verge of collapse. He blamed that gas pipeline was mainly laid out to provide gas to industries but from the same pipeline SSGCL has provided gas to CNG stations.
Bilwani said that while industries need flow of gas, the CNG stations actually suck gas from these pipelines. He demanded that supply of gas to CNG stations is separated from the gas pipeline laid out for the industry so that the industries get full flow of gas to run their production without any hitch and meet their export deadlines.
He wondered how SSGCL gave permission for as many as 34 CNG stations in the SITE Industrial Area placed close to each other in violation of mandatory distances required under the law, resulting in lowering of pressure to industries and other consumers. He expressed great surprise at the complete silence and no action against non-supply of gas to SITE Industries by the Sindh Government and the political parties.
