Wednesday, 23 March 2016

No check on kerosene price

Kerosene is still getting awash on added than 100 per cent profit, as the city-limits commune government, Rawalpindi, has bootless to ascendancy the situation.


The sellers by affairs kerosene at Rs100 to Rs105 per litre are not alone actionable Punjab government orders but aswell the Oil and Gas Regulatory Authority (Ogra) notification which anchored the ante of kerosene at Rs43.25 per litre.

The users of kerosene accept filed several complaints with anxious admiral but in vain. The anxious admiral of city-limits commune government, Rawalpindi alone authoritative alpine claims to alpha crackdown adjoin looters but about they are accomplishing annihilation except presenting bruised excuses, they alleged.

Kerosene Oil Retailers Association (KORA) Rawalpindi assembly said that they are affairs kerosene on college prices from depot, therefore, affairs it on college rates. The dealers accommodate us 1-litre kerosene at Rs85 to Rs90, and we are affairs the article at college prices, they claimed.

‘The News’ learnt that there were added than 2,000 privately-run oil agencies actuality in Rawalpindi city-limits and billet localities. The oil agencies are active even in residential localities. The kerosene is a best antecedent of blaze but it was acclimated in some added works as well.

The kerosene is getting awash from Rs100 to Rs105 per litre in abounding areas including Dhoke Ratta, Adiala Road, Defence Road, Talhi Mohri, Bakramandi, Dhoke Syedan, Lalkurti, Dhoke Banaras, Chungi No22, Adra, Tench Bhatta,, Mughalabad, Mehrabad, Tehmasabad, Pirwadhai, Ganjmandi, Dhoke Mangtal, Kohati Bazaar, Kashmiri Bazaar, Asghar Mall, Eidgah Road, Jamia Masjid Road, Sadiqabad, Muslim Town, Morgha, Tipu Road, Muhallah Naik Alam, Railway Road, Range Road, Chur, Allahabad, Misriyal Road, Jhanda Chichi, Garibabad, Mohanpura, Chamanzar and several added localities.

Additional Commune Collector General (ADGC) Imran Qureshi said, “we are aggravating to ascendancy this situation.” He said that it is a amount of abundant affair that kerosene sellers are earning added than 100 per cent accumulation on 1-litre of the commodity. “I am traveling to anatomy a appropriate aggregation to adviser this situation,” he assured.

Talking to ‘The News’ association of these areas accept accepted the government to accredit appropriate ecology aggregation actuality in city-limits to analysis this situation.

“It seems there is no government command as sellers are affairs 1-litre oil at Rs100-105 adjoin Rs43. After government advertisement apropos abatement in POL prices I was acquisitive to buy kerosene oil at lower prices but bearings was the same,” Mukhtar Abbasi, a chief citizen, said.

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