Bareilly stares at fuel crunch as tankers stopped on roads due to kanwar yatra

Bareilly | Thursday | 20th July, 2017

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We have planned to supply fuel to petrol pumps accordingly but today(Thursday), all of sudden all our oil tankers have been stopped by the administration at Aonla. Petrol pumps have stocks for the next two days only, said Indian Oil Company ( IOC ) officials here on Thursday after administrative authorities stopped tankers of various petroleum companies carrying fuel to petrol pumps. Perhaps, there was some communication gap between oil companies and police. BAREILLY: The city may face a fuel crunch if supplies are not replenished soon. The tankers were stopped two days before the previously announced date of July 22 for the kanwar yatra.Officials of IOC met additional district magistrate (city) Alok Kumar and said that they were informed earlier that from Saturday, the entry of fuel tankers would be restricted due to the kanwar yatra, However, the oil tankers were stopped two days earlier..