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BPC official sources said yesterday that 62 lakh litres of diesel was supplied yesterday to 16 northern districts that includes 24 lakh litres unusable residual oil — also known as dead stock. In other words, only 38 litres consumable diesel was supplied yesterday.
The distribution has been curtailed 25 to 50 per cent to cope with the present shortage, a Regional Control Room (RCM) official said.
Aminul Islam, manager of Karotoa Filling Station situated on the outskirts of Bogra town said his filling station requires approximately 9000 litre diesel every other day, but he received about half of the requirement.
A bus driver had no option but to abandon his bus temporarily at Aminul’s filling station premises as they could not provide sufficient diesel for the bus running on Rajshahi-Rangpur route, Aminul said.
Because of the ongoing fuel shortage for the last ten days, Aminul had to purchase 9000 litre of diesel on August 20 from black market in Baghabari river port depot area to meet the customers’ demand and to remain in business.
Saiful, an employee of Haque and Sons Filling Station in Satmatha also reported a similar situation where his filling station has been receiving only 9000 litre diesel every alternating day against the daily requirement of 9000 litre.
Friends Traders Filling Station in Kurigram had only 1000 litres of diesel in stock on Tuesday afternoon while a number of filling stations including Hossain Petroleum and Ekramul Haque & Sons in Chapainawabganj have already run out of diesel.
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