By NAYAN DAVE
Petrol pumps throughout Gujarat are witnessing scarcity of diesel and petrol over the previous four-five days as many pumps working out of diesel because of brief provide and as outcome lengthy queues are being seen outdoors these shops the place each the fossil fuels can be found.
Forget different components of Gujarat, some petrol pumps in state capital Gujarat stopped promoting petrol and diesel on Wednesday night. Petroleum sellers of Public Sector oil corporations are saying that they’re getting 20 to 30 % much less provide towards their calls for.
Confirming the event, Arvind Thakker, president of Federation of Gujarat Petroleum Dealers’ Association (FGPDA) claimed that there was not less than 20 % brief provide to greater than 2500 retail petroleum sellers of Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Limited (HPCL) and Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited (BPCL). Due to brief provide, many petrol pumps had been pressured to shut gross sales until they obtained contemporary provide from each these corporations, mentioned Thakker.
According to FGPDA, out of practically 1200 petrol pumps owned by non-public gamers together with Reliance Industries Limited’s (RIL), Nayara Energy and Shell practically 70 % are closed. Echoing him, Pavan Kumar Sehgal, CGM HPCL mentioned that as common prospects of personal firm owned petrol pumps shifted to us, demand of petrol and diesel have elevated out of the blue.
“Our supply to retail outlets hasn’t been curtailed. It is because of unprecedented demands of petrol and especially of diesel, some of the petrol pumps shut for a few hours. We are working on increasing the quantity of both the fuels to ensure that end users wouldn’t have to suffer,” mentioned Sehgal.
When contacted, a RIL spokesperson refute to touch upon the problem. In the case of Nayara Energy, there wasn’t any reply to Financial Express’s question on what number of of their shops are functioning in Gujarat and throughout the nation. Around a month in the past, an identical scenario prevailed with the non-public firm’s shops within the state in wake of unprecedented volatility in gas costs. A retail seller of a non-public petroleum firm mentioned that in any case only a few end-users are coming to us as costs of PSU oil firm’s petrol pumps are much less. Luckily there was enough provide of CNG, in any other case there might have been havoc on a lot of the shops, he added. There are greater than 4500 petrol pumps of personal and authorities owned corporations in Gujarat. These shops are promoting practically 55 crore litre of diesel and 25 crore litre of petrol month-to-month.
Source: www.financialexpress.com”