The gas supply to 450 industrial units including Textile Processing, Printing, Dyeing and others of Faisalabad Region would remain close for next three days (Saturday to Monday). Due to the prolong load shedding, thousands daily wages workers including lady workers are suffering. Most of the workers observed their Eid without salaries.
Talking to newsmen, Mian Ajmal Farooq, Acting Regional Chairman, All Pakistan Textile Processing Mills Association, said that closure of industry in Faisalabad for one day was tantamount to loss of Rs 4 billion, which would now increased to Rs 32 billion till November 22. The government did not honour it promises of one-day closure in a week, and present gas shedding schedule is ruining the textile industry and its affiliated workers. When the industry remained closed since last one week, how it is possible to run all business affairs including export commitments, he added.
Chaudhry Salamat Ali, Chairman, Pakistan Hosiery Manufacturers & Exporters Association (North Zone) demanded of the government to protect the industry to overcome the unemployment, industrial investment and national exports. The Gas shedding should be ended immediately for survival of sinking industrial sector, he called for.
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