Monitoring Desk
ISLAMABAD/PESHAWAR: Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P) industrialists have demanded that the government ensure low-cost and uninterrupted gas and electricity supply to manufacturing units.
The K-P manufacturers have called for prompt steps to resolve the letter of credits (LCs) problem, which has halted industrial activities.
These problems were taken up during K-P Governor Ghulam Ali’s visit to the industrial estate, Peshawar, at the invitation of the Industrialists Association Peshawar (IAP). Mayor of Peshawar Zubair Ali also accompanied the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa governor.
Uninterrupted gas and electricity supply
President Industrialists Association Malik Imran raised various serious issues of industrialists, mostly related to gas, electricity, collection of fixed billing charges and quarterly tariff adjustment in bills, etc.
The IAP chief said that K-P was producing natural gas in surplus quantity, and discoveries of gas were also reported in the province. He also said that under the constitution of Pakistan article 158-A, the first right on natural gas is of the people of K-P, a cheap and uninterrupted electricity supply needs to be provided to commercial, industrial, and domestic consumers in the province.
He has voiced concern over fixed billing charges and quarterly tariff adjustments in power bills and said that K-P also self-sufficient in electricity production, but electricity was unavailable to commercial and industrial consumers in the province.
