KARACHI: Senior Vice President of Site Association of Industry (SITE) Riaz Uddin has strongly condemned the non-supply of gas with the required pressure to the industries of SITE area and demanded from the government to ensure gas supply at full pressure as promised in various meetings.
In an appeal to government, Riaz Uddin said that before the onset of winter, several meetings with the industrialists at the government level, including Prime Minister Imran Khan, had promised that if the industrialists agreed to get gas at a higher tariff than usual, they would be given uninterrupted gas as per production demand.
“However, despite the higher tariff, the promise of gas supply at full pressure to industries has not been fulfilled,” he said, adding, “Production activities are being severely affected due to non-availability of gas to the industries of the SITE.”
He further said, “The gas pressure has been zero since Thursday, making it impossible for industries to run.” Riaz Uddin pointed out that the premier on the one hand seeks the cooperation of the industrialists and on the other hand neither gas nor electricity was being supplied to the industries as per requirement.
“In such a situation, neither industries will run nor exports will increase, if production activities continue to be disrupted then industrialists would be forced to shut down the factories,” he warned.
Riaz Uddin demanded the government uninterrupted and full pressure supply of gas to industries in the best economic interest of the country and said that strict directives should be issued to SSGC in this regard, “as disrupting industrial production activities is against Prime Minister Imran Khan’s vision of promoting industries and country’s exports.”
