SSGC removes illegal gas connections

KARACHI: The SSGC's Security Services and Counter Gas Theft Operations (SS&CGTO) Wing, along with officials of the SSGC Police and Recovery Department, conducted a joint raid on a local sweets and bakers in the Nazimabad area on Wednesday.

The suspect was found using gas directly through a service line. The total calculated connecting load of gas stolen was 260 cubic feet/hr. The SSGC police summarily lodged an FIR against the bakery owner involved in theft.

In Hyderabad, during a scheduled leak survey, leak points were identified at old Wahdat Colony near Barkati Masjid Qasimabad, Hyderabad. Upon excavation, nine theft clamps were found installed on 63mm dia pipe supplying gas to 25 houses. The raiding team consequently removed direct theft clamps, besides replacing a 63mm dia pipe.

In an anti-gas theft crackdown by the SSGC's Customer Relations Department (CRD) in Yaqoob Shah Basti in Karachi's Manghopir area, unravelled volumes of gas was being stolen through a direct line with complete disregard for law.

The raiding team found residents extending illegal gas connections through rubber pipes from 15 fake service connections for supplying gas to 130 houses. In addition, 20 houses were caught stealing gas through four meters. The team disconnected the gas supply to 130 houses, cut off 15 service connections and disconnected four meters supplying illegal gas to 16 houses.

A volume of 124,800 cm per year of gas was being stolen through these illegal arrangements, which amounted to Rs3,900,000. A claim of Rs480,000 has been raised against four meters for supplying gas illegally to 16 houses. Strict monitoring of the area has been initiated to keep gas thieves at bay