AGARTALA, Oct 29 (TIWN): In 2016, every festivals in Tripura have been suffered from as crisis has become a part of Tripura in left front era. Apart from price hike, public are suffering from various commodity crisis due to the increasing black marketing of fuel items. On the occasion of Diwali the black marketing has gone high in Tripura, and business is running at loss due to various crisis. Recently, report revealed that as Northeast does not have LPG pipeline network, thus supply of LPG is made through road transportation but for Tripura the blackers or the brokers are looting the public with double or triple price.Taking the opportunity of the govt’s silence the black marketing has spiked up like anything. Along with LPG, the black marketing of kerosene is also hitting the state.

Tripura is reeling under tremendous LPG crisis since few months, which has created much resentment among the common men. The LPG crisis has hit the black-market also. Unbelievable but true TIWN was informed by secret sources that in LPG black-market the price has gone upto Rs. 3000/-. The rate is getting up-down from Rs. 2200/- to Rs. 3000/. On the other hand the backlog problem of LPG & generating resentment among the common mass, has hit the cabinet also. Reportedly, already the state govt has written a letter to IOCL-MEA & also demand raised by Tripura Govt. that using Bangladesh land, the LPG should enter in Tripura.

But public alleged that the state government is not taking proper initiative to control the situation. The huge number of black marketing of LPG cylinder is the chief reason behind acute cooking gas shortage in the state, a customer told TIWN. 

Black marketers of domestic cooking gas cylinders seem to have devised new ways to carry out their activities, despite the introduction of the modified direct benefit transfer scheme for LPG. On the day of Saptami, whereas people were celebrating puja, a large section of public were found blocked road, protesting at Capital City in demand of LPG.

However, the Diwali days have found same in state, as increasing black marketing has hit the public especially in fuel items. On the other hand sugar price has affected poor families festive days, as just ahead of festive month left front govt in Tripura had hiked its price.