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Stopping Shutdown Of supplying Petroleum Products
By KTM Metro Reporter
January 4, 2012: hearing on the case filed by Advocate Jagnath Mishra and his associates on stopping any shutdown of supplying basic-need items including petroleum products following the Act of 2014 that prevents strikes and shutdown of supplying basic need items, a single bench of Justice Kalayan Shrestha of the Supreme Court of Nepal has issued an interim order to the Prime Minister and the Council of Ministers for taking legal actions anybody preventing the supply of basic need items including petroleum products, ‘gorkhapatra’ of today writes.
The advocate and his associates had filed a case at the Supreme Court of Nepal demanding the enforcement of the Act of 2014 that prevents shutdown of supplying basic need items after the Association of LP Gas Industries, Federation of Gas Sellers and Nepal Petroleum Dealers Association have threatened the government to shut down the supply of petroleum products if their demands were not met by the government.
the petroleum products have been chronically in a short supply due to mainly the incompetent minister that seeks rent for every decision he makes on supplying petroleum products.
The Supply Minister, then Finance Minister and the Prime Minister have not been so seriously about the sufferings of the people and billions of rupees worth of the business loss caused by the short supply of petroleum products. Their focus has been primarily on how to stick to their respective position.
Prime Minister Dr. Baburam Bhattarai talks about serving the people but he has not taken the short supply of petroleum products, of power and drinking water seriously. How could Dr. Bhattarai claim that he has been doing everything for the people for the good governance if he does not give any priority of easing the supply of those three basic need items for daily uses of the common folks and for the development of the country?
People with a bit of knowledge of how the state-owned companies providing these three basic need items would say that the endemic corruption at these companies is responsible for the short supply of these items.
These state-owned companies do the business of worth of billions of rupees every months. Naturally, anybody taking the positions of the ministers overseeing these companies make a lot of money for themselves at the cost of the people’s suffering and at the cost of national development.
So, it is natural that the concerned ministers are not much worried about the short supply of petroleum products, of electricity and water because they could make a lot of money keeping the short supply of these items, as these items bring billions of rupees worth of business means a few percentage of commission on the business brings hundreds of millions of rupees to the concerned ministers; it is worth taking a commission on any decision they make.
