Gas supply could not be restored to Faisalabad industries on 5th day

FAISALABAD: The supply of gas remained suspended, on fifth consecutive day, on Monday 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 gas supply could be not restored on Monday as a result all the major industrial units remained closed.

Industrialists while expressing their grave concern over gas loadshedding, stated that suspension of gas supply to industrial units was sheer injustice, adding that this had badly affected thousands of workers besides affecting the production.

Meanwhile, Sui gas authorities have obtained a time period from the industrial organizations of Faisalabad till 2pm today, saying that new load management plan would be issued after this.

The new plan of action would be chalked out after the deadline given to Sui gas authorities, said Chairman, All Pakistan Textile Processing Mills Association, Shaikh Saeed.