Three Sui gas projects worth Rs 1.455 billion are underway in the district which are nearing completion, said an official of the Sui Northern Gas Pipeline Limited (SNGPL) on Thursday.
Chief Engineer South Punjab Abdur Rashid Arshad told APP that a sum of Rs 550 million is being spent on Mailsi project, Rs 455 million on Vehari project and Rs 450 million on Burewala project. He said in this way a huge Sui gas project is being executed on the directive of President Pervez Musharraf with an aim to bring backward and remote areas at par with the developed ones.
Member of the National Assembly (MNA) and a PML leader, Aftab Ahmed Khan Khichi, and former district Nazim Vehari Mumtaz Ahmed Khan Khichi, have termed these projects as unique in the history of the district.
They said more than 200,000 people will benefit from these projects which remained to elude in the past as the past regimes kept promising but never fulfilled their promises. They said the long-cherished dream-cum-demand of the Vehariites became a reality only due to special favour of President Musharraf, Premier Shaukat Aziz, Governor Punjab Khalid Maqbool and Chief Minister Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi.
The chief engineer said the transmission pipeline has been linked via Pakhi More and Iqbal Nagar from where it will be linked to Hasilpur and Haroonabad. He said the Sui gas supply will generate business activity as well besides providing a basic necessity to the household for domestic use. He said CNG stations will be set up for vehicular fuel which will save their resources as well as environment from aerial pollution.
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