40 CNG inspection-certification centres to open in Punjab

The CNG Stations Association will set up as many as 40 installation, inspection and certification stations across the province during the next three days, according to a statement issued on Wednesday.
The decision was taken at a meeting held under the Transport Secretary Muhammad Yousaf, and attended by the representatives of the Oil and Gas Regulatory Authority (OGRA), CNG vendors association, the Hydrocarbon Development Authority of Pakistan, and the Transporters’ Association. The meeting participants decided that the inspection centres after checking the CNG cylinders installed in the vehicles would affix adhesive certificates on the vehicles’ windscreens. Scanners would be installed at CNG stations to read the stickers and allow gas filling. The meeting also decided that CNG cylinders fitted in all privately-owned vehicles would require fitness certificates after five years, or will need to be replaced. The life of CNG cylinders fitted in public transport vehicles would be determined by OGRA. The meeting also decided that the CNG Stations Association would raise the number of inspection centres to one hundred. The transport secretary said the government took these decisions to protect human lives from cylinder accidents.