The Federal Government has approved the provision of the gas facility to forty thousand households in Karak and Hangu districts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
Officials said the project will be completed at a cost of Rs.7 billion. Out of which, four billion rupees will be provided by the provincial government.
In the first phase, the gas facility will be provided to domestic consumers residing within five-kilometre radius of the gas-wells in both the districts while the facility will be provided to rest of the villages later on.