Halting credit facility to petrol dealers will cause chaos: AIPDA

In all, there are 90,000 dealers in the country. Of which there are 4500 in Maharashtra and 550 in Pune.

Daruwalla said, “As per the arrangements, the dealers were allowed to make purchases up to Rs 20-30 lakh. It means they used to get a limit of up to Rs 30 lakh. But now they will not get any limit. They will have to pay cash and carry the products. Our questions is, which dealers keep Rs 30 lakh at home? No one keeps such a big amount at home. How will they make the purchase from Monday? This is really going to throw everything into a disarray.”

Daruwalla said, “The All India Petrol Dealers Association wants to request BPCL, HPCL and Indian Oil to continue with the credit facility as the dealers are not in a position to make purchases on cash basis.”

As for the distribution of commercial LPG, Daruwalla said, “There is no ban… There is some miscommunication and it has been sorted out. Commercial LPG will continue to remain available like in the past.”