The threat by petroleum dealers to shut down pumps on Sundays will be dealt with according to measures necessary to maintain supplies of essential commodities, the Centre said on Wednesday. \u201cWe have just now been made aware of this decision by the petroleum dealers through media reports,\u201d a senior Petroleum Ministry source said when queried about the dealers\u2019 decision to shut fuel bunks every Sunday starting May 14 to protest the public sector oil companies\u2019 failure to hike dealer margins.<\/p>\n
The decision will cover Haryana, Maharashtra and the entire southern region \u2014 Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Tamil Nadu, Kerala as well as Puducherry.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe have to wait and see how this measure impacts on the ground\u2026 because petroleum products are classed essential commodities and the Essential Commodities Act (ECA) can be applied depending on the circumstances,\u201d the source said.<\/p>\n
Dealers\u2019 body representatives told the media on Tuesday that their decision was in line with Prime Minister Narendra Modi\u2019s recent call to save petrol and diesel.<\/p>\n
Petroleum Minister Dharmendra Pradhan, who was in Jaipur on Tuesday to witness the MoU signing for construction of a refinery in Rajasthan by state-run Hindustan Petroleum, is expected to assess the possible fallout of the dealers\u2019 decision here on Wednesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The threat by petroleum dealers to shut down pumps on Sundays will be dealt with according to measures necessary to maintain supplies of essential commodities, the Centre said on Wednesday. \u201cWe have just now been made aware of this decision by the petroleum dealers through media reports,\u201d a senior Petroleum Ministry source said when queried about the dealers\u2019 decision to shut fuel bunks every Sunday starting May 14 to protest the public sector oil companies\u2019 failure to hike dealer margins. The decision will cover Haryana, Maharashtra and the entire southern region \u2014 Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Tamil Nadu, Kerala as […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[133],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-109315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-oil-gas"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109315\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}