Sui Nothern Gas Pipeline Limited (SNGPL) is all set to stop gas supply to the industrial units in NWFP on the account of annual maintenance, sources in industrial sector told Business Recorder on Monday. "SNGPL has issued notices to industrial units in Hayatabad Industrial Estate for stoppage of gas supply from today (Tuesday), confirmed Nauman Wazir, president Industrialists Association Peshawar (IAP) when contacted.
He said that the issuance of the notices had caused anger and resentment among the industrialists. "This is no way that SNGPL issues notice to industrialists and resort to gas load shedding," said the angry IAP leader, saying the matter would be raised with the local General Manager.
Criticising the decision, he said that instead of stopping gas supply to industries, the company should have gone for load management. It will give no benefit and rather would render more than 28000 labourers jobless creating law and order situation in the province.
He suggested before going for resorting to load shedding in industrial estates, the company should have suspended the supply to CNG stations and domestic consumers. The vehicles, he said, could be run through petrol and domestic consumers also arrange alternative of gas," he said.
He said that besides the notices of the suspension of gas supply to units, they are also facing the problem of the hours long power load shedding. More than 50 per cent industrial units suspended production due to power outages. "We are faced more than eight time power suspension on Monday," he told this scribe.
Nauman Wazir said that industrialists of Sindh and Punjab beside enjoying tax holidays have been exempted of power and gas load shedding while the industrialists of the province are not only deprived of these facilities but also pay handsome amount for policing in the industrial estates.
He said that industrialists of the Hayatabad Industrial Estate are paying Rs 50000/- per month under Industrialists Police Liaison Committee (IPLC) and as compare to Citizen Police Liaison Committee (CPLC) in Karachi and Lahore. He said that industrialists in Sindh have been facilitated with five years tax holiday while no such facility is extended to the industrialists of the province.
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