The Committee was briefed by the OGRA Chairman that establishment of Pabbi Sub-Area and Customer Service Center (CSC), Jehangira; that the proposal in this regard has been submitted by SNGPL to OGRA in review petition against the decision of estimated revenue requirement (PERA) for the fiscal year 2021-22; and that the decision is pending while Standing Committee approved the minutes of the previous meeting and also approved the previous recommendations of the Committee along-with few changes recommended by the Committee and details thereon will be described in the detailed report of the meeting.

Moreover, Standing Committee unanimously approved the Scrutiny of the budgetary proposal of the Ministry relating to the Public Sector Development Program (PSDP).

Two (Govt Bills) were taken up by the Committee in the meeting and decided that the “the Petroleum (Amendment) Bill, 2021” may be passed by the National Assembly whereon Law Ministry has provided few technical legislative drafting related corrections to be incorporated as well. Whereon, the “The Pakistan Petroleum Upstream Regulatory Authority Bill, 2022” (Govt Bill) may be deferred for further deliberation thereupon.

The Committee while taking the briefing from one Managing Director namely; Imran Munir from (SSGC) Official decided that his reply is not as per the rules and due to such defiance from his duty his matter may be referred to the Privileged Committee.

Source: Pro Pakistani