SIALKOT: Protests were reported from across the district on Thursday against hours long gas outages which had become a routine, badly affecting the domestic consumers.

The situation irked the domestic consumers, especially the women, as there no gas or liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) available to run their kitchens in severe cold and dense foggy weather conditions while using firewood was out of question in the urban areas.

Hundreds of the women along with their children again took to the streets for lodging protest against the prolonged gas out-ages in Sialkot, Daska, Sambrial, Uggolci, Chawinda, Badiana, Pasrur and surrounding areas. They were carrying kitchen items in their hands and chanting slogans, demanding end to the gas loadshedding.

The protesting women revealed there were 18 to 20 hours long gas outages going on for the domestic consumers. While the pressure of gas remains very low during the remaining hours time due to which they were unable to cook anything.

Meanwhile, due to the gas loadshedding, the shopkeepers and dealers have created an artificial shortage of LPG in abovementioned areas.

The shortage was also adding to the miseries of the people already hit by Sui gas.Shopl(eepers in these areas are selling the LPG at exorbitant rates from Rs200 to 250 per KG against the fixed official rate of Rs125 per KG by exploiting the conditions.

The situation was still going on unchecked by the concerned officials of the district administration.

People have urged Gujranwala Commissioner Khawaja Shamail Ahmed and Sialkot DCO Nadeem Sarwar to look into the matter.

LAND RECORD: The Narowal administration has constituted a 15-member committee headed by the additional district collector, asking it to bring back all revenue record of the district from Sialkot within a fortnight.Narowal was accorded district status 24 years ago in 1990 and since then its land revenue record had been lying at Sialkot.

Some of the record has reportedly been damaged because of poor handling and maintenance.

During a recent meeting at Sialkot District Bar Association (DBA), Gujranwala Commissioner Khwaja Shamail Ahmed had ordered immediate shif ting of the record to Narowal, but the district administration failed to do so.

The new committee has started working on the record shifting so that the people of the district, particularly the litigants, could access it locally instead of traveling to Sialkotforthe purpose.