{"id":18995,"date":"2018-02-09T00:11:58","date_gmt":"2018-02-08T18:41:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=18995"},"modified":"2018-02-09T00:11:58","modified_gmt":"2018-02-08T18:41:58","slug":"fuel-shortage-in-u-subansiri-petrol-being-sold-in-black","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2018\/02\/09\/fuel-shortage-in-u-subansiri-petrol-being-sold-in-black\/","title":{"rendered":"Fuel shortage in U\/Subansiri; petrol being sold in black"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>[Karda Natam]<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>DAPORIJO, Feb 8:<\/strong> Few vehicles are plying on the roads in entire Upper Subansiri district for over a week, owing to unavailability of petrol and diesel.<br \/>\nThe shortage of fuel has greatly affected commuters, especially government staffs and the business community. People living in far-flung areas are finding it difficult to reach the towns as passenger vehicles are also off the road.<br \/>\nMeanwhile, many shopkeepers are openly selling petrol at high prices at several places in Daporijo and in its outskirts. Bikers are buying petrol in two-litre Pepsi bottles from shops.<br \/>\nA rider informed that petrol is being sold at the rate of Rs 400 per two-litre bottle.<br \/>\nOn being asked, a staffer at the petrol pump in Gandhi Market informed that the last time they received petrol supply was on 1 February, when a truck containing 12,000 litres of petrol had arrived. The quota was sold out by 3 February, the staffer said, adding that it may take a few more days for the next supply of fuel to arrive here.<br \/>\nRegarding the open sale of high-priced petrol in the markets, he said although the petrol pump is complying with the district administration&#8217;s order banning sale of petrol in bottles, &#8220;we are selling it to the people in other containers.&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;Shopkeepers in Daporijo and Dumporijo purchase huge quantities of fuel from the petrol depots and sell them at high prices in the open markets, especially during periods of scarcity,&#8221; said a resident.<br \/>\nHe said this is a regular practice in the district, which leads to harassment of vehicle owners, especially government staffs who must commute to discharge their duties.<br \/>\nThe administration has served a prohibitory order to every petrol depot against selling petrol in Pepsi bottles. The order is publicly displayed at the depots, too; but depot staffers are apparently working around the ban by selling petrol in containers other than Pepsi bottles, which is then directly resold in the market.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Karda Natam] DAPORIJO, Feb 8: Few vehicles are plying on the roads in entire Upper Subansiri district for over a week, owing to unavailability of petrol and diesel. The shortage of fuel has greatly affected commuters, especially government staffs and the business community. People living in far-flung areas are finding it difficult to reach the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18998,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-18995","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18995","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18995"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18995\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}