Chairman APTMA Punjab S M Tanveer has urged the government to ensure uninterrupted energy supply to the Punjab based textile industry after Ramazan. He said the Punjab based textile industry has fully co-operated with the government in its strive to provide maximum energy supply to domestic consumers during Ramazan. Now the time has come that the government should provide uninterrupted energy supply to the Punjab based textile industry, already operating on partial shifts, he added.
S M Tanveer said the textile industry is designed on 24/7 operations throughout 365 days a year. But it was exposed to both electricity and gas supply shortages during Ramazan for the sake of domestic consumers, he added. The APTMA Punjab Chairman urged the Minister for Petroleum and Natural Resources Shahid Khaqan Abbasi and Minister for Water and Power Kh Muhammad Asif to provide gas and electricity to the industry so as to remove the mismatch of industrial production.
Also, he said, the Ministry of Water and Power is also urged to exempt 58 textile mills, the prime users of electricity, from load shedding, as maximum demand of these textile units is not more than 150MW. He said only uninterrupted energy supply to the Punjab based textile industry will help industry to operate and enable it to procure current cotton crop if the farmers produce exportable production, keep employment intact and restore image of the Punjab based textile industry as a reliable supplier of export orders from around the world.
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