{"id":60968,"date":"2020-02-04T10:29:25","date_gmt":"2020-02-04T10:29:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/?p=60968"},"modified":"2020-02-04T10:29:26","modified_gmt":"2020-02-04T10:29:26","slug":"shc-directs-govt-supply-gas-residents-areas-located-around-gas-fields","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/shc-directs-govt-supply-gas-residents-areas-located-around-gas-fields.html","title":{"rendered":"SHC directs govt to supply gas to residents of areas located around gas fields"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Karachi: The Sindh High Court (SHC) on Monday directed the federal government to pay an amount of PKR 4.912 billion to the Sui Northern Gas Company (SSGC) so that it could supply gas to all the villages in a five-kilometre radius of gas fields in the region, a news source reported. Earlier, a petition had been submitted about the lack of welfare funds for the people residing near oil and gas fields, and the failure of the government department\u2019s concerned in implementing the Supreme Court (SC)\u2019s orders.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Read:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/shc-halts-excavation-activity-in-karoonjhar-hills.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"SHC halts excavation activity in Karoonjhar Hills (opens in a new tab)\">SHC halts excavation activity in Karoonjhar Hills<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A division bench of the SHC led by Justice Mohammad Karim Khan Agha heard the arguments of the federal government\u2019s representatives, the SSGC, and the Oil &amp; Gas Regulatory Authority (Ogra). Ogra stated that the cost of gasification of villages would be financed by the SSGC if the villages were located within a five-kilometre radius of the gas fields. Ogra further stated that the SSGC had already managed to provide gas to 114 villages. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Read:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/gulistan-e-sarmast-case-shc-issues-important-notices.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Gulistan-e-Sarmast case; SHC issues important notices (opens in a new tab)\">Gulistan-e-Sarmast case; SHC issues important notices<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A counsel for the SSGC told the high court that they would ensure the provision of gas to the villages concerned if the federal government released the required funds of PKR 4.192 billion. The federal government admitted that it had no funds to release as yet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Read:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/shc-seeks-karachi-master-plan-deadline-issued.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"SHC seeks Karachi Master Plan; deadline issue (opens in a new tab)\">SHC seeks Karachi Master Plan; deadline issue<\/a>d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Earlier, the Council of Common Interests had decided that the gas distribution companies were supposed to finance the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/minister-assures-provision-of-gas-facility-to-murrees-rural-areas.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"provision of gas  (opens in a new tab)\">provision of gas <\/a>to villages near the gas fields. However, the high court observed that SC had already obligated the ministry of petroleum to provide gas to the nearby villages and that CCI&#8217;s decision had not been approved by the parliament.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Read:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/shc-orders-against-commercial-activities-in-cliftons-residential-areas.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"SHC orders against commercial activities in Clifton (opens in a new tab)\">SHC orders against commercial activities in Clifton<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The\nSHC directed the ministry of petroleum and the federal government to grant PKR\n4.912 billion funds to the SSGC within seven days so that the gas-distributing\ncompany could provide gas to the remaining villages within six months.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Karachi: The Sindh High Court (SHC) on Monday directed the federal government to pay an amount of PKR 4.912 billion to the Sui Northern Gas Company (SSGC) so that it could supply gas to all the villages in a five-kilometre radius of gas fields in the region, a news source reported. Earlier, a petition had been submitted about the lack of welfare funds for the people residing near oil and gas fields, and the failure of the government department\u2019s concerned in implementing the Supreme Court (SC)\u2019s orders. Read: SHC halts excavation activity in Karoonjhar Hills A division bench of the SHC led by Justice Mohammad Karim Khan Agha heard the arguments of the federal government\u2019s representatives, the SSGC, and the Oil &amp; Gas Regulatory Authority (Ogra). Ogra stated that the cost of gasification of villages would be financed by the SSGC if the villages were located within a five-kilometre radius of the gas fields. Ogra further stated that the SSGC had already managed to provide gas to 114 villages. Read: Gulistan-e-Sarmast case; SHC issues important notices A counsel for the SSGC told the high court that they would ensure the provision of gas to the villages concerned if the federal&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":60971,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15020],"tags":[17828,17826,17827],"persona":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-60968","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-social-developments","8":"tag-oil-gas-regulatory-authority-ogra","9":"tag-shc-asks-federal-govt-to-supply-gas-to-residents-living-near-gas-fields","10":"tag-sui-northern-gas-company-ssgc","11":"cat-15020-id"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>SHC directs govt to supply gas areas around gas fields - Zameen News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Karachi: The Sindh High Court (SHC) on Monday directed the federal government to pay an amount of PKR 4.912 billion to the Sui Northern Gas Company (SSGC)\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/shc-directs-govt-supply-gas-residents-areas-located-around-gas-fields.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"SHC directs govt to supply gas areas around gas fields - Zameen News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Karachi: The Sindh High Court (SHC) on Monday directed the federal government to pay an amount of PKR 4.912 billion to the Sui Northern Gas Company (SSGC)\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/shc-directs-govt-supply-gas-residents-areas-located-around-gas-fields.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Pakistan Real Estate News &amp; 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