Nepal Oil Corporation distributes gas despite road closure
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Nepal Oil Corporation delivered four hundred thousand liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) cylinders to the Kathmandu Valley in ten days.
The corporation imported 52,737 metric tons of LPG over the past 28 days, which equals 3.7 million cylinders. A landslide blocked the Prithvi Highway, a major roadway, so the corporation refilled cylinders at industries in the Terai region, the plains area of Nepal, and transported them to Kathmandu and surrounding districts via alternate routes including Tribhuvan Rajpath and the BP Highway.
From August 18th to 27th, nearly three hundred ninety-nine thousand, five hundred twenty-nine cylinders reached consumers using these alternate routes. Currently, an average of 40,000 cylinders are sold daily in the valley. Nepal Oil Corporation arranged to refill cylinders at industries in Bara, Parsa, Makwanpur, Chitwan, Nawalparasi, Dhanusha, and Mahottari districts to bypass the blocked highway and supply Kathmandu.
To improve supply, the corporation formed a high-level coordination team and the government increased enforcement against those hoarding cylinders or creating artificial shortages. Authorities distributed approximately 1,200 hidden cylinders to consumers and fined businesses found to be engaging in irregular practices. Nepal Oil Corporation is also developing an online tracking system to make cylinder sales more transparent.
Compared to last year, gas imports and sales have increased, roughly 1.2 million more cylinders were sold in the first two months of the current fiscal year than in the same period last year.
