A few tankers started ferrying petro fuels from the IOCL terminal of New Jalpaiguri from Tuesday night, their numbers increasing on Wednesday as talks between the oil company and tanker owners and drivers somewhat eased the deadlock over transport rates, but fuel supply was far from normal.
Although supply is limping back — a fourth of the 350-odd tankers are moving as of Wednesday — as IOCL authorities held talks with protesting tanker owners and drivers and promised to look into their transport rate demands, 150-odd pumps in north Bengal are still dry, owners said.
Petrol dealers have now threatened to go on strike.
