KARACHI, Oct 7: The transporters operating buses in the city have urged the provincial government to provide them with the CNG kits to convert their vehicles into gas-operated ones.

In a statement issued on Sunday, the Karachi Transporters Action Committee and the Anjuman Ittehad-i-Bus Malikan said that if the Sindh government wanted to fight environmental pollution in the city through banning the non-CNG buses, it should provide the transporters with the CNG kits.

The associations condemned the government’s moves towards banning the non-CNG buses, saying that the policy was a conspiracy against the transporters operating buses in the city. They also criticised the government for not paying due attention to the transporters’ grievances.

They expressed the view that the government was wasting public money on the imports of expensive CNG buses instead of assisting the transporters in upgrading their buses by providing them with CNG kits.—PPI