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Cars And Motorbikes Stand In Line At Petrol-pump Stations
Cars And Motorbikes Stand In Line At Petrol-pump Stations
August 10, 2017
Kathmandu: cars and motorbikes standing in line at the State-sponsored petrol-pump stations has been a scene of short supply of petroleum products today. Such a scene is not a new for the residents in Kathmandu, as the short supply of petroleum products has been never ending problem, reoccurring every six months or even earlier.
The short supply of petroleum products happens if the Indian Border Security Force wants to make trouble, if the price of petrol is high in the Indian market, if the Indian Oil Corporation stops filling the Nepal-bound petrol tankers. In any cases, Nepalese State and State-run officials make billions whereas the common folks suffer from the long line of vehicles waiting for filing out their tanks. The country makes the economic loss because the business is hampered, and the factories and industries and other businesses slow down.
This time, Petroleum Dealers’ Association has declared going on strike means halting the sale of petroleum products from the private pumps making the crowd of vehicles waiting for filling their tanks at the few State-sponsored petrol pumps. The Association’s demand has been for increasing the technical loss of petrol but the government has been for reducing the loss. The government has the habit of tackling the problem only after common folks have suffered enough.
The Association says a tanker carrying 4,000 liters of petrol loses 66 liters on the way but the government compensates the petroleum dealers only for 35 liters; so they have demanded the compensation for 66 liters, the news in the “artha bazaar” section of “gorkhapatra” stated today. The association has made its protest program public; dealers will stop buying petrol starting on August 10, 2017, if the government does not meet their demand then they will halt purchase and sale of petroleum starting on August 13, 2017, and then none of the petrol pumps will buy and sell petrol starting on August 15, 2015, the news stated.
