The Confederation of Nepalese Industries (CNI), Sindhuli chapter, distributed 300 half-filled cooking gas cylinders to locals through lottery after it became impossible to provide gas to all the households. Across the country, people have been reeling under the shortage of cooking gas due to the on-going border blockade.
The locals in Sindhulimadhi had demanded 800 gas cylinders but only three hundred cylinders of Sahara Company were brought for distribution, according to the CNI.
The names of locals, who had registered for cooking gas cylinders, were written in chits and put inside one container and chits with words 'Gas' and 'Thank you' were kept in another. One chit from each container was taken out simultaneously and the cooking gas was provided to those whose name came out along with gas. The consumers were charged Rs 825 each half-filled cylinder. The actual cost of a half-cylinder gas is Rs 700, but Rs 125 extra was charged as transportation charge, informed CNI Chairman Binesh Kumar Shrestha.
The distribution of cooking gas cylinders took place amid tight security. Shrestha said that the CNI took the initiation to bring cooking gas in the crisis situtaion in the district started to get worse. He informed that they provided four cylinders, out of the total 300, to district and private hospitals.
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