ISLAMABAD, Pakistan: Sui Northern Gas Company Limited (SNGPL) is confident to clear backlog of gas connection applications during the next fiscal year, official sources in the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Resources Wednesday said.
“In 2013, there was the backlog of two million applications for gas connections, out of which the company cleared 1.5 million so far and the rest will be cleared in the year 2017-18,” they told the state-run news agency.
Answering a question, the sources informed that SNGPL and SSGCL have planned to invest Rs 12,702 million on transmission projects, Rs 43,045 million on distribution projects and Rs 8,462 million on other projects bringing the total investment of Rs 64,209 million during the next year.
During July 2016 to February 2017, they said, the utility companies provided 360,465 domestic, 339 commercial and 20 industrial connections across the country.
While they spent Rs 17,925 million on transmission projects, Rs 11,183 million on distribution projects and Rs 14,925 million on other projects.
The companies laid 814 kilometer gas transmission network, 4,153 kilometer distribution and 1,162 kilometer service lines and connected 104 villages and town to gas network.
