April 5, 2003	Saturday	Safar 2, 1424

KARACHI, April 4: As many as 2,500 new customers will be added to the Sui Southern Gas Company (SSGC) distribution system after the completion of Suhbat Pur gas pipeline project near Jafarabad district, Balochistan.

Prime Minister Mir Zafarullah Khan Jamali performed the ground-breaking ceremony of the Rs210 million project on March 30. Besides Suhbat Pur district, the project will provide gas to other 15 villages.

The route survey and engineering drawing of the project from Dera Allah Yar to Suhbat Pur have already been completed with network planning of en routes villages, says a press release of the SSGC.

The project comprises 75 km of pipeline network, which includes 49 km of transmission spur and 26 km distribution mains.

The project has been prepared on the directive of the prime minister to provide natural gas to the people of Suhbat Pur and its adjoining areas.

In his address at the ceremony, Mir Jamali assured the people of the province that the present government is taking keen interest in the development of Balochistan area which had been neglected in the past and that further areas would also be upgraded.