Sharp increase in emergency lights prices

ISLAMABAD—The prices of Gas Lamps and emergency lights have been shot up in the twin cities of Rawalpindi and Islamabad due to electricity loadshedding.
The emergency light which was selling at Rs. 600 before the current electricity crises now available at Rs. 1200 and it has also been observed that an acute shortage of lights was witnessed in some parts of the cities.
Muhammad Umar, a shopkeeper, said that the demand of the emergency lights was low before the start of loadshedding, but nowadays it has become a profitable business due to its increased utilisation.
Ahmad Sheeraz Saeed, a resident of Garden Town, New Shakrial while talking to this agency told that people could not afford extra burden of buying gas lamps and emergency lights, adding that sometimes the lights developed faults early.—Online