Ijaz Kakakhel Islamabad
A legislative body of upper house of parliament on Tuesday warned to take action against OGRA if it failed to take necessary measures to stop the increasing gas cylinder blast in a diligent manner. They expressed serious concern over rising gas cylinder blast in different parts of the country and also expressed severe sense of regret to OGRA on such negligent performance over this matter. Senator Rana Maqbool Ahmad expressed these views while presiding over a meeting of the Senate Standing Committee on Cabinet Secretariat at Parliament House
The Senate Cabinet Secretariat Committee on Tuesday after detailed inquiry transpired that no prosecutions and no convictions so far has been made on unregistered LPG manufactures indulging in violation and selling substandard cylinders causing incidents of the most dangerous cylinder blasts under the existing law.
The committee gave OGRA time period of 06 weeks to give practical results on the recommendations of the committee including mechanisms to legalize and make mandatory registration of unauthorized dealers, fix time lines, issue warning, advertise and give detail specifications (quality and material) to be used in manufacturing of LPG cylinders.
The committee also directed to hold meetings with the ministry of Law and Justice in order to vet upon the draft prepared further to amend Pakistan Penal Code to enhance punishment for those contributing threat to human life and property through increasing LPG cylinder blasts.
