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Oil Tanker Operators On Strike for Indefinite Period
By KTM Metro Reporter in Kathmandu
Oil tanker operators announced that they would be on strike for an indefinite period demanding to annul the decision of Nepal Oil Corporation on restricting the use of oil tankers of 20 yeas of age and older. Nepal Oil Corporation has decided so, as the old tankers are not safe to use for transporting oil. They have stopped collecting petroleum products from the depots of Nepali Oil Corporation since Monday, March 30, 2009.
Talking to the anchor of the state-run Radio Nepal in the morning program on March 31, 2009, Joint secretary and Spokesman for the Ministry of Supplies said that petroleum products fall in the category of basic daily necessities; so, it is illegal to stop the transport of such items following the ‘Essential Service Act of 1957; however, the government is trying to resolve the problem by dialogue with the representatives of the oil tanker operators; he also disclosed that Nepal Police and Nepal Armed Police are going to buy 25 oil tankers each and the Nepal Oil corporation 50 altogether 100 oil takers to break the monopoly of the private oil tanker operators on transporting petroleum products.
