Lyari is one of Karachi’s oldest yet thickly populated marginalized localities and at the tail-end of the gas distribution network. Due to the law and order situation in the past, SSGC was unable to start some large supply main projects as well as a mass rehabilitation projects for the old gas network. However in order to maintain gas supply in this situation through small pipeline replacements, SSGC gas network was badly compromised. After the law and order situation improved a few years back, SSGC started and completed a large high-pressure supply main of 12-inch dia. of 5 km from Mazar-e-Qaid to Dhobi Ghat Lyari in 2022 to boost gas supply at this tail-end area.
Now SSGC has planned around 350 km of network rehabilitation projects at a cost of around Rs. 3.5 billion to cover the entire Lyari and some adjoining areas. The projects will replace the old steel network with new HDPE better capacity pipelines for efficient gas supply to avoid outages and resolve low gas pressure problems in the area.