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Birgunj Reels Under Cooking Gas Shortage

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Birgunj Reels Under Cooking Gas Shortage
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November 25: Considered to be the main life line for the import of petroleum products, Birgunj has been reeling under the scarcity of cooking gas.

Customers queued up in front of the National Trading Limited’s (NTL) office since early afternoon Monday on rumors that cooking gas cylinders would be distributed. But they were compelled to return with empty cylinders the next morning.

As residents of Birgunj queued up all night, two of the LPG bullets supposed to arrive in Birgung were stuck at the border point at Sunauli. When approached, the gas company said it was not able to distribute gas until the stuck gas bullets arrived at the industry’s depot at Parwanipur.

The Birgunj border point from where 70 percent of the fuel enters Nepal has been blocked for two months because of picketing by the agitators of Madhesi Front. Some cylinders of Narayani Gas were distributed from NTL’s premises on Monday.

“Despite rumours about the distribution of cooking gas, the local administration has not bothered to provide correct information to the consumers,” Pramod Thakur of Birgunj said. The lack of information has forced consumers to sleep on the streets not to miss the chance of getting the gas.

Chief District Officer of Parsa, Anuj Bhandari, however, said that information was given to the consumers. The information was channeled through the authoritative dealers of the industry, he said. The dealers, on their part, said that no coordination was sought with them for the distribution of the gas.

Central vice-chairperson of Gas Dealers Federation Nepal, Ganeshman Shrestha said that the industries had not sought coordination with the dealers for the distribution of the gas. “The government has only given the industries the license for production but the industries are distributing the gas themselves against regulation,” he complained. “Even in this time of crisis, distribution is not transparent,” he added. According to him, one cylinder of gas can fill 2,500 cylinders if a cylinder is filled with 7 kg- 100 grams of gas but the industry had not distributed more than 2,000 cylinders, he revealed.   

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