The News reported that the Lahore Chamber of Commerce and Industry severely criticized Sui Northern Gas Pipeline Limited authorities for their failure to restore gas supply to Pakistan Re Rolling Mills despite a promise of supply of gas on Monday.

Mr Irfan Qaiser Sheikh president of LCCI and senior VP Mr Kashif Younis Meher said that “It is very disturbing that the people came to their jobs in the morning and after a few hours they were asked to go back as gas could not be restored.”

The LCCI office bearers urged the President and the Prime Minister to play their due role and direct the concerned authorities to restore gas of steel industry without any further delay and save near half a million workers and their families from starvation.

The LCCI office bearers said that around 40 percent of the industrial units in Punjab run on gas and gas suspension means no production by almost half of the industry in Punjab and a loss of billions of rupees to the exchequer.

They said that the discriminatory attitude of the government was not only denting its goodwill and reputation but had also put a question mark on its ability to manage and govern things. The units in Sindh were getting an almost uninterrupted supply except a two to three hour load shedding depriving the industries in Punjab of level playing field.

(Sourced from www.thenews.com.p)