AGARTALA, August 5 (TIWN): In view of the poor service by the Indian Oil Corporation (IOC) and the rampant fuel crisis here at the capital city and other parts of the state the state Food and Civil Supplies Minister Bhanulal Saha had written to the Ministry of Petroleum at New Delhi on Tuesday seeking to restore the irregularities by the IOC. He said, “Over 100 oil tankers arrived here in the state from Shilchar stranded at Dharmanagar currently.” Talking to the reporters here at the civil secretariat on Tuesday minister said that as the network server of the Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) is down currently the IOC is unable to dispatch the stranded oil tankers without uploading the data in their site. “But as an alternate to that the oil tankers can be dispatched manually and later after the server is restored the IOC can easily upload the data in their site with which at least the crisis could be contained here,” claimed Saha.Besides, slamming the IOC authority Saha in view of the LPG cooking gas cylinder crisis said that the concerned authority is reluctant to sort out the problems of their workers who had tenure of only 2 years to work under the IOC in contractual basis.

Saha said, “The concerned workers have been demanding for additional wages which had not been sort out yet today and besides, their 2 years tenures had got over.” Adding to that Saha told reporters that he had contacted with the Food and Civil Supplies Director regarding the problems and had urged him to take up the matter with the IOC immediately asking them to restore all sorts of problems.

He said the despite several persuasions by the state government the IOC had not taken any necessary steps towards restoring the problems which is ultimately causing serious trouble for the common mass of the state.

It may be mentioned here that currently the oil stations in and around the state went dry due to the lack of fuel resulting the people to suffer at large. Hundreds of people stands in a long queue everyday infront of the oil stations.