ISLAMABAD: Federal Minister for Energy Omar Ayub has said that the previous governments instead of using renewable sources, preferred costly Regasified Liquid Nitrogen Gas (RLNG) projects.
While speaking at the floor of the Senate, Omar Ayub said that the government was striving hard to provide cheap electricity to the consumers. It brought the electricity price to 4.35 rupees per unit by introducing renewable energy projects, he added.
Federal Minister for Housing and Works, Tariq Bashir Cheema also informed the Senate that allotment of houses to federal government employees was absolutely being done on merit and according to the rules.
Earlier Ayub had said that in 2019, the federal government provided twelve percent extra gas as compared to the last year in December.
In a series of tweets, the federal minister said, the supply to the domestic sector was at an average of 831 MMCFD in December 2018 by the Sui Northern Gas Pipelines Limited (SNGPL).
However, he said the government supplied 30 percent more in the first fifteen months of this month, and are supplying 47 percent more to the domestic sector.
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