Once again the consumers are facing petroleum crisis, thanks to the Nepal Tanker Drivers' Association (NTDA).
"Due to the tanker drivers' agitation, the tankers have not been loaded with petroleum products since Monday," said Nepal Oil Corporation (NOC) spokesperson Mukund Dhungel. While some tankers are en route to the valley new supply has virtually stopped.Dhungel said that today NOC held discussions with the Nepal Tanker Transport Association (Parsa), All Nepal Transport Labourers' Association, Nepal Transport Free Labourers' Union (Raxaul), Nepal Oil Corporation Kathmandu Tankers Route Unit and Nepal Petrol Transport Association regarding the eight-point memorandum of the tanker drivers.
The drivers want that the eight-point demand conceded by the NOC be implemented. "NOC is ready to implement the agreement that was reached between the NOC and the tanker drivers," Dhungel said adding that on Thursday they would hold talks with the agitating drivers. Minimum wage and allotment of parking area are some of the demands of the drivers. The agreement over the demands was reached last year.
NTDA has been agitating since three days, urging NOC to implement previous agreements. The strike has disrupted transportation of petroleum products in the country coming from Raxaul. "We have distributed the petroluem products that we had in the valley, but there was no new supply," Dhungel said.
NOC said a crisis of confidence between NTDA and Petroleum Transport Association (PTA) had caused the problem.
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