Gas supply remains suspended to Faisalabad industries on 4th day

FAISALABAD: The supply of gas remained suspended, on fourth consecutive day, on Sunday to industries of Faisalabad under gas load management plan, Geo News reported.

The suspension of gas has badly affected industrial production resulting increase in miseries of daily wages workers.

Sui gas authorities had announced gas outages to Faisalabad industrial units from Dec 09 to 11, but Sui Northern Gas on Sunday could not restore gas supply to Nawala Industrial Estate as a result all the major industrial units remained closed. In other areas, owing to low gas pressure, industrial machines could not be started.

Chairman, Value Added Textile Forum, Khurram Mukhtar expressing his concern over gas loadshedding, stated that suspension of gas supply to industrial units on fourth consecutive day was sheer injustice, adding that this had badly affected around 0.2 million workers. He further said that closure of industries have also affected manufacturing of export products.

He was of view that if the situation remained same, all the industries would be shutdown.