NOC’s eastern region chief says stock will finish in six days

Bhairahawa/Biratnagar, April 29:

The western and eastern regions have been facing shortage of petroleum products for one week.

The supply of petroleum products is erratic, as the prices have risen in the international market, according to the Nepal Oil Corporation Western Regional Office, Bhairahawa.

Assistant manager at the regional office of the corporation Yog Raj Koirala said only

six tankers of petroleum products were been imported from Belahiya border point daily, while 20 tankers of fuel used to be imported from the border daily earlier.

Koirala said as the problem of petroleum products was a national problem, it should be solved at the central level.

President of Western Petroleum Dealers’ Association MK Miya threatened to launch an agitation if the supply of petroleum products were not eased within two days. He said the NOC was providing only three lakh litres of petroleum to the dealers while it used to supply six lakh litres daily one week ago.

Even the the eastern region is facing shortage of petroleum products. Stock in NOC depots of eastern regional office at Biratnagar would finish in six days, Nepal Oil Corporation’s eastern regional office chief Pushkar Datta said.

In the corporation’s eastern regional depots, four lakh litres of petrol, six lakh litres of kerosene and two lakh litres of diesel is in stock, the office said.

Though the region needs about seven lakh litres of petroleum products daily, only three lakh litres has been supplied. Around 467 petroleum sellers have been selling five lakh litres of petroleum daily in the region.