KATHMANDU: The government has decided to bar private vehicles, tippers and trucks from refilling fuels for next three days.

Consequently, vehicles of mass transportation including bus, minibus and microbus as well as emergency vehicles only can refill the oil.

Nepal Oil Corporation spokesperson Deepak Baral told THT Online that a joint meeting of Ministry of Home Affairs, Ministry of Commerce and Supplies, security agencies and the Corporation took the decision today considering the current crisis in fuel market.

"All private vehicles with red number plates as well as trucks and tippers will not be given fuels," Baral said, "The decision will be implemented for three days."

Baral clarified that school and college buses will not be given fuel if they have red number plates.

Hundreds of fuel tankers have been stranded in the India side after the agitating Madhesi parties launched their protest at the major border entry points.

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