ISLAMABAD: Parliamentary Secretary for Cabinet Division Raja Javed Akhlas on Friday apprised the National Assembly that the Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi has decided to give one million new domestic gas connections to consumers across the country.
Responding to a ‘Calling Attention Notice’ moved by Dr Azra Fazal Pechuho and others regarding non-provision of new gas connections to the consumers of Sindh, he said the Cabinet approved the policy in 2013 to provide gas connection purely on merit.
He said there was no discretionary quota of anyone including the prime minister, the minister or MNA. Connections are strictly being provided on merit basis, he said.
He said since 2007, there were total 1.9 million consumers of Sui Southern Gas Company Limited (SSGCL) and now number of connections was surged to 2.89 million.
SSGCL received around 80,000 to 100,000 application for new connections every year, he said.
Raja Javed said SSGCL was providing new gas connection to the consumers in just 45 days. As many as 15,000 to 20,000 gas connection applications were pending with SSGCL, he said.
He said some 2.2 million applications were pending in Punjab with Sui Northern Gas Company Limited (SNGPL).
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