Nepal lifts fuel restrictions after five months of protests

Nepal Oil Corp is now receiving regular supplies of diesel, gasoline, kerosene, aviation fuel and cooking gas from Indian Oil Corp.

By: AP
Kathmandu | Updated: February 23, 2016 08:23 PM IST

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New Dellhi: Nepal Prime Minister K P Sharma Oli addresses a Business Meeting in New Delhi on Monday. (PTI Photo by Kamal Singh)

Rationing and sales restrictions on fuel were lifted in Nepal on Tuesday for the first time in five months after ethnic protests and border blockades cut oil supplies into the Himalayan nation.

Deepak Baral of the state-owned Nepal Oil Corp, which has a monopoly on importing and supplying oil in Nepal, said drivers will be able to buy as much fuel as they want from Tuesday.

“The lifting of the rationing of fuel should end long lines at service stations and end difficulties for consumers,” Baral said.

Nepal Oil Corp is now receiving regular supplies of diesel, gasoline, kerosene, aviation fuel and cooking gas from Indian Oil Corp, which supplies all the oil products to Nepal. Baral said although the supply was equal to about 70 percent of the actual demand they now had enough to ease the sales restrictions.

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