Most vehicles in Pakistan run
on CNG nowadays. Pakistan has the greatest number of CNG refill stations and CNG
vehicles. But today, Pakistan is facing CNG crisis. In Pakistan, the greatest
amount of CNG is used in the Punjab province, which is the country’s largest
province with respect to population. In 2011, CNG has only been available four
days per week.
CNG has been in use by Pakistan since 1992. In the beginning, Pakistani
Government persuaded the public, time to time, through media to use CNG kits in
their vehicles. Also, investors were offered discounts if they invested in CNG
refill stations. Lack of petrol and diesel and oil crisis while the easy
availability of CNG and its properties like it pollutes the air much lesser than
oil, became the factors which influenced the public with a CNG revolution.
The public started using CNG in a few years; especially the public transport was
now running on CNG. According to the statistics of 2009, there were 21, 91,000
vehicles using CNG Engines/CNG Kits and 2941 CNG refill stations in the country.
According to the Pakistani Government, the reason behind CNG crisis in winter is
the excessive use of gas. The gas starts freezing in the pipes and its pressure
becomes very low. There is a sharp increase in the use of CNG vehicles as well,
but the production of gas isn’t seeing any increments with that proportion. That
is how, Pakistani Government continued CNG load-shedding in the summers.
The Pakistani public is extremely offended at the Government due to the on-going
CNG load-shedding. Majority of public transporters in Pakistan don’t do their
transport business during the days CNG isn’t available, that’s about three days
in a week (as of 2011), this causes not only a great loss to the transporters
themselves but the life of the commoners is also affected adversely. The
students face difficulty in going to their educational institutes due to the in
availability of transport. School and office staff that uses the public
transport arrives their offices late, and this happens more often. Patients
suffering from fatal diseases die, due the in availability of transport to the
hospitals during the days CNG isn’t available.
Same is the case with small-scale-businesses and traders, due to CNG
load-shedding, the business of small-scale traders is also affected badly.
Now this is the right time to solve this problem and Government should take the
serious steps to solve this problem otherwise this problem will gone out of the
boundary.