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CNG stations to remain closed two days a week in Sindh: ECC

ISLAMABAD: Economic Coordination Committee (ECC) has decided to defer hike in gas tariff and to keep CNG stations in Sindh closed for two days a week, Geo News reported on Thursday. This was decided in a meeting of ECC chaired by Federal Minister for Water and Power Syed Naveed Qamar. The committee, under gas load management plan, approved closure of CNG stations for two and three days a week in Sindh and Punjab respectively. In the meeting Rs2 billion was approved for Ramazan package. It is pertinent to mention here that a day before, federal minister for petroleum and natural resources Dr Asim Hussain had said that government was taking solid steps to solve gas crisis, adding that gas load management plan was being chalked out. Dr Asim further said there was proposal to approve the increase in gas tariff by 10 to 15 percent for domestic consumers, 15-20 for commercial and 100 percent for the fertiliser industry.