TODAY -
Oil pumps shut down ahead of blockade
Source: Hueiyen News Service
Imphal, June 22 2015 :
Despite the government stand that there is fuel to last 21 days in Manipur at any given time almost all oil pumps were shut down from Monday morning.
The indefinite economic blockade began from Monday midnight only.
The stock should have lasted at least 3 weeks and the shutting down of the oil pumps is incomprehensible.
There is no report of coming down heavily on the oil pumps.
Some oil pumps had opened in the morning.
But within a few hours they put up "petrol nil" notices.
However officials are attributing the shortage to panic buying.
|
But then almost 90% of the oil pumps did not sell anything since they were not open at all.
The indefinite blockade was imposed by All Tribal Students' Union Manipur protesting against the lukewarm attitude of the government.
The demands concern the regularisation of 268 contractual and 333 adhoc teachers in the five hill districts.
Talks were held to discuss these long standing issues on November 28, 2013 and October 22, 2014.It is accusing the government of backing out of the commitments.
There are other demands like appointments to clear the reserved backlog in the Assembly secretariat and JNIMS.
There is no response from the government although people had felt the adverse impact ahead of the blockade.
Past experience had shown that the government had failed to transport all commodities during such blockades.
ATSUM is threatening to close down the national projects also.
The roadside vendors have started selling petrol at Rs 100 or so per litre.
* Comments posted by users in this discussion thread and other parts of this site are opinions of the individuals posting them (whose user ID is displayed alongside) and not the views of e-pao.net. We strongly recommend that users exercise responsibility, sensitivity and caution over language while writing your opinions which will be seen and read by other users. Please read a complete Guideline on using comments on this website.
HEADLINES - 23, JUN 2015
SNIPPETS - 23, JUN 2015
SPORTS - 23, JUN 2015
LATEST IN E-PAO.NET
Jump Start
DBS Imphal SubSite |
Readers Mail |
Editorials |
Education Announcements |
Essay |
Exclusive Event |
Flash - Audio Visual |
Incidents |
LFS Imphal SubSite |
News Timeline |
Poetry |
Opinion |
Sports |
Rock Concert |
RSS |
Top Stories |
Wathi Jugai