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Price of Cooking Gas Reduced
Price of Cooking Gas Reduced
KTM Metro Reporter
August 2, 2017
Kathmandu: Nepal Oil Corporation (NOC) reduced the price of liquefied petroleum gas by NPR 25 per 15-kg cylinder making effective today. The price of one cylinder gas is now NPR 1,325.
The demand for cooking gas has been considerably low after introduction of induction heaters at the time of the Indian embargo on any trucks entering Nepal from India in 2015 for more than five months making the short supply of everything including fossil fuels forcing common folks to find an alternative.
At that time, gas sellers had virtually looted from the customers charging as high as NPR 7,000 per cylinder. Even now, gas vendors charge NPR 100 per cylinder for home service even at the distance of a kilometer or less.
India has the monopoly on providing Nepal with the fossil fuels making the whimsical supply. If India wants to choke Nepal they simply stopped supplying fuel as did in 2015.
When the price of fuels in Nepal is less than the Indian market price then the supply of fuels to Nepal becomes less attractive in other words even the State officials indulge in diverting the Nepal-bound fuels to the Indian market causing the fuel crisis in Nepal.
The induction heaters are the alternatives to the common folks at the time of crisis in the supply of cooking gas. However, power supply had been not so smooth in the past before the dashing energy minister and the dedicated CEO of Nepal Electricity Authority managed to make uninterrupted supply of power at least in the metropolitan cities.
