The Sui gas project Mailsi, being completed at a cost of Rs 710 million, will be inaugurated in the near future. National Assembly member and Pakistan Muslim League leader Azhar Khan Yousufzai on Tuesday told newsmen here that the gas supply had been the demand of the local people since decades, however, no previous regime fulfilled their promise.
The 52-kilometre long Sui gas pipeline has been linked from Jahanian to Mailsi via Chowk Maitla, Tibba Sultanpur and Dokota towns at a cost of Rs 650 million. Giving details, he said the transmission pipeline diameter was 10 inches from Jahanian to Tibba Sultanpur and eight inches from Tibba to Mailsi.
The distribution length of the pipeline across Mailsi city is 40 kilometres, which has been completed at a cost of Rs 60 million. The only work left is installation of the pipeline at the railway crossing. He said the Divisional Superintendent, Railways, Multan, had promised to process the case at the earliest.
Yousufzai said the 100,000 population of Mailsi city and suburbs, 25,000 of Tibba Sultanpur, 15,000 of Dokota and 5,000 of Chowk Maitla towns would benefit from the project.
He said he had submitted a proposal to the Prime Minister to include Jallah Jeem, a big town of 30,000 population, which lied eight-kilometres south of Mailsi, in the gas supply project. This extension, if approved, will cost Rs 90 million.
The entire work on the ongoing Mailsi gas project would be completed within a week, he said, adding that Sui gas supply projects were also going on at Burewala and Arifwala and all the three were likely to be inaugurated by the Prime Minister soon.
He said the present government was providing the utility to maximum areas that were hitherto ignored, as Vehari city is also being provided gas supply under the mega development project. The PML leader said the completion of the project would improve the quality of life of the local people, and accelerate business activity in the region.
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