Sindh Chief Minister Syed Qaim Ali Shah visited the fire affected garment unit in SITE Industrial Area and held a short meeting with the leaders of business community at SITE Association Office The CM was welcomed by Siraj Kassam Teli, Patron-in-chief, Zubair Motiwala, Former Chairman, Mohammad Irfan Moton, Chairman and the senior members of SITE Association of Industry.
Zubair Motiwala thanked the CM for his visit and offered fateha khawani for the Esal-e-Sawab of the deceased, prayed for the injured and conveyed sympathies to the members of the bereaved families. He suggested revisiting the safety standards, attitudes of Labour and Civil Defence Departments in the current scenario and asked to take concrete steps for holding free, fair and transparent investigation to reach at a point to avoid such unfortunate incidents. He suggested to constitute a high-level committee for the impartial investigation so that the hidden hand is surfaced out. He also appealed for proper compensation to the affectees.
Siraj Kassam Teli said it was on the record that business community plays a vital role in the economy of the country and it is the need of hour to focus each of us that wrong is always wrong and no one should even think to be unfair in his deeds. He said that everyone should avoid being selfish and try to tolerate each other instead of being opportunist. He said that if a single incident of accidental death is happened everyone should be shattered but now the hundreds of human lives have been lost and blaming game is on. The current incident demands us to open our eyes and whosoever is found involved for any criminal negligence should be given exemplary punishment. He appealed CM for appropriate compensation to the bereaved families for the irreparable loss. He stressed that all the concerned departments should concentrate on their lawful duties and avoid to indulge in unnecessary objections to create harassment for the business community and all concerned institution be taken into task for correctness in future.
Younus M Bashir, Senior Vice President, Karachi Chamber of Commerce & Industry while appreciating timely visit of CM suggested that immediate measures are needed to upgrade and up to date the fire fighting system in the SITE Industrial Area, Continuous Supply of Water must be ensured in such incidents by providing parallel supply of water through tankers. Necessary oxygen masks and fire proof uniforms be made available to the firemen to face the untoward situation.
Low gas pressure hits SITE
Industrial Area: SITE Association of Industry Chairman Muhammad Irfan Moton has expressed much concern over low gas pressure in SITE Industrial Area by the SUI Southern Gas Company Limited. The production in the SITE Industrial Area is badly suffered due to anomalous gas pressure for the last two days.
He said in a press statement that the industrial production stopped after gas pressure dropped abruptly, several captive power generating units also stopped operating because of the insufficient supply of gas to the biggest and oldest industrial area of the country.
He further said that this problem was being faced only by the industrialists of SITE Area whereas the other industrial area of Karachi do not face this problem which means that discriminatory attitude is being made by SSGCL with SITE Area which should seriously be taken by the authorities.
The abrupt low gas pressure may cause heavy threats to human lives coupled with financial loss.
The present supplies of low pressure of gas, industries have been put under constraint to meet out their targets resulting decline in earning of foreign exchange and loss of Government exchequer.
The SITE Association chairman demanded Managing Director, SSGCL, to look into this issue and take necessary steps for improvement of the gas pressure in the biggest industrial estate of the country on war footing basis.
