Chitral Times Report
ISLAMABAD: The government has decided to reduce the prices of petroleum products for the month of January 2019. Price of Petrol and diesel has been reduced by Rs 4.86 and Rs 4.26 per litre respectively. The price of Kerosene oil has been reduced by Rs 0.52 and that of LDO by Rs 2.16 per litre. Accordingly, prices of petroleum products for the month of January 2019 shall be as under: Product Existing Price per litre (Rs) New Price per litre (Rs) Ms 92 RON 95.83 90.97 HSD 110.94 106.68 Kerosene Oil 83.50 82.98 LDO 77.44 75.28 These prices shall be applicable from 1st – 31st January 2019.
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Meanwhile Ghulam Sarwar Khan, Federal Minister for Petroleum and Natural Resources, directed M. Zahoor, Regional Manager, Rawalpindi, SNGPL and Javed Khan, Chief Engineer to resolve the communal complaints of low gas pressure .He said that he will not bear any sort of delaying tactics .He directed SNGPL officials to add extra gas in the system through substitute sources. He directed to install operational phase in the affected areas and later on report will also be submitted. He said that Sales Transmission (SMS) should be used so that extra gas from Rawat can be utilized .He added that by upgrading under size pipeline the issue of low gas will be solved. The Federal Minister said that all public complaints will be resolved soon.
