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[Watch] Pakistan’s Jugaad: People Store LPG In Huge Plastic Bags Instead Of Cylinders Amid Crisis

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New Delhi: An unverified video claiming to be from Pakistan shows people carrying huge plastic bags filled with cooking gas. It is doing rounds on social media to suggest how people from Pakistan stored LPG in plastic bags instead of the alternatives like cylinders or gas pipelines.

“In Pakistan, the practice of using gas packed in plastic bags instead of cylinders for cooking has increased. Gas is sold by filling bags inside the shops connected to the gas pipeline network,” the user tweeted while sharing the video of people transporting the plastic bags that appear like inflated balloons.

People in the Karak district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa have not been provided with gas connections since 2007, whereas Hangu city has been deprived of gas connection for the last two years as the pipeline that carried the gas remains unrepaired ever since it broke down, India Today reported.

How is it done?

Gas vendors fill LPG in a plastic bag before shutting the opening of the bag tight with a nozzle and valve with the help of a compressor. It takes approximately an hour to fill three to four kg of gas in the plastic bag. Ironically, in 2020, nearly 85 barrel of oil and 64,967 million cubic feet of gas was extracted from the region of Kyber Pakhtunkhwa. Despite that, people are compelled to buy gas in plastic bags at Rs 500 to 900, as commercial gas cylinders cost around 10,000 Pakistani rupees, the report added.

Carrying gas in a plastic bag is no less than a moving bomb. According to a report, at least eight patients were admitted to a burn care centre of the Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences after getting injured due to these plastic bags, India Today added.

OB Bureau

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