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| May 6, 2005 | Friday | Rabi-ul-Awwal 26, 1426 |
Over 1,000 outlets in Lahore
LAHORE, May 5: Over 1,000 places in Lahore’s residential areas have Liquefied Petroleum Gas cylinder facilities (filling outlets). In the absence of any proper legislation, the business has thrived during the last couple of years. Under the Punjab Local Government Ordinance of 2001, however, a violator faces Rs15,000 fine and imprisonment of three months, but no violator has been punished so far.
According to a preliminary study of the City District Government Lahore, the illegal business is being carried out in the residential colonies of Railway Station area, Lytton Road, Gulshan-i-Ravi, Yateem Khana, Misri Shah, Badami Bagh, Multan Road, Shahdara, Saddar, Harbanspura, Shadbagh and in the walled city.
“These areas house 800 to 1,200 LPG filling outlets and if a thorough survey is carried out, the number may turn out to be higher,” a CDGL official said.
Area councillors are supposed to inform the CDGL if an illegal business of gas filling is being done in their localities but none has so far bothered to do so, he said. Reports suggest that the LPG cylinders filled in at these places are supplied to two-stroke engine rickshaws, cars, houses and industries in the city.
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