CNG stations challenge recovery of arrears

LAHORE

CNG stations owners have challenged the recovery of gas infrastructure and development surcharge arrears in the Lahore High Court through a writ petition. 

The petition said the federal government had promulgated the Gas Infrastructure and Development Surcharge Ordinance in 2011, however, the Supreme Court set it aside. The petitioners said the government later introduced a new law in 2015 to levy the surcharge and also started recovering arrears of the surcharge for the previous years. They plead that a Senate committee had also declared the recovery of the arrears illegal but the amount was being included in the monthly gas bills.