BPCL,Oil India & IOC workers call off strike

Officials at state-run oil firms have called off their strike that began on Wednesday and had choked the supply of transport fuels,a union leader said. “We have called off the strike in public interest,” said Sanjay Varshney.

“Over 70 per cent of the people have resumed work in marketing. By this evening,we will be able to resume fuel supply at all locations…. To make up for the backlog we would work on Saturday and Sunday too,” earlier BPCL Director (Marketing) S Radhakrishnan said in Delhi.

BPCL accounts for 25 per cent of the petro goods market in the country,while HPCL accounts for 27 per cent and IOC the rest.

HPCL has been functioning normally throughout.