The digital news outlet Pro Pakistani reported that the Chief Executive of Murree Brewery Isphanyar M Bhandara sent a letter to Punjab Director General of Excise and Taxation, requesting the government department to allow his company to manufacture alcohol-based hand sanitizers.
“We request the government to grant us a special permission for manufacturing and selling ethanol-based hand sanitizers (having 70%v/v ethanol) on urgent basis without fulfilling any long formalities so that being a socially responsible corporate company, we could participate in fighting against the deadly pandemic,” the letter read.
Murree Brewery said that as a socially responsible company they were willing to play their role in making hand sanitizers on war footing to help the nation in this hard time.
The company in a separate letter has asked the government of Punjab to let them work during the lockdown as Food Items Manufacturing and Distributions Offices are exempted from the lockdown order.