Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Mar 25: Petrol pumps across Jammu Province are not getting supplies as police authorities are not allowing the owners or concerned persons of the pumps to move to banks to deposit the payments in the ongoing lockdown due to outbreak of COVID-19.
“Due to non-availability of supplies, the petrol pumps will go dry in the coming days, which may create problems for the commuters especially those working in the essential services field”, Anan Sharma, President J&K Petrol Pumps Owners Association said in a statement.
He informed that for getting supplies the petrol pump owner or the concerned person(s) has to go to bank for depositing the payments, but due to non-availability of passes to move during ongoing lockdown, transactions can’t be made.
If we were not allowed to get the cash deposit in the banks for getting supplies, the petrol pumps in the time to come will go dry, which can also hamper the working of the persons engaged in the field of essential services, he stated.
Atleast the Government should issue passes to the employees working on petrol pumps viz owners to get the supplies by depositing the payments in the banks, Sharma said.
He also informed that the depot of Indian Oil Corporation will remain closed tomorrow and will operate on alternate days in Jammu.
“Many Government officers and companies having mobile towers also procure diesel from the petrol pumps across Jammu and Kashmir and if the supply is not made available to the petrol pumps, the operations of all these offices and companies will get hamper in the time to come”, he added.
Sharma urged the authorities to fix the timing of the petrol pumps to operate across Jammu Province by issuing a single Government order.
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