This is the first time that this number of diesel tankers made an entry to the country from the point since India imposed unannounced blockade against the country.
Six tankers with a capacity of carrying 20,000 liters of fuel each and a tanker with 12,000 liters of capacity entered the country from India, according to Nepal Oil Corporation Dhangadhi regional office chief Sharad Poudel.
However, employees of Indian Oil Corporation are reluctant to supply petrol, he said quoting drivers reached there to refill their tankers.
We are clueless why the Indian side is not supplying petrol to us, he said.
Fuel for the far-western region is imported from IOC Banthara depot based in Utter Pradesh. The Customs Office Friday checked in two diesel tankers and a one tanker of petrol. The NOC depot in Dhangadhi was told by the Banthara depot employees to send tankers to fill up fuel only after calls from there.
However, the imported fuel is too little to cope with the market demand affected by the shortage since two weeks, he said. RSS
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