CNG stations in Mansehra to face gas suspension

MANSEHRA: The district administration has announced to suspend gas supply to compressed natural gas (CNG) stations for six hours a day to address the low pressure issue being faced by the domestic consumers in urban parts of the district since the start of rains and snowfall.

Deputy Commissioner Dr Qasim Ali Khan, in compliance with request made by the regional manager Southern Northern Gas Pipelines Limited in Abbottabad, ordered the suspension of CNG to vehicles for three hours each in the morning and evening to pass on a relief to domestic consumers as gas pressure drops drastically since the start of rains and snowfall in Hazara division.

According to the load-shedding schedule issued by DC, all CNG stations in the district would suspend gas supply to vehicles from 6am to 9pm in the morning and 6pm to 9pm in the evening.

“Any CNG stations that breach this order would be sealed and its proprietor might be proceeded against as pre laws,” said the notification.