SK oil dealers call for equal allotment of oil by the CAF&PD

IMPHAL, May 20: Demanding for the state government authority to provide an equal share in the SK oil allocation to dealers and not to make a divide and rule policy, the All Manipur SK Oil Dealers Association addressed a press conference at Hotel Imphal today.

A member of the All Manipur SK oil dealers association who did not want to be named said that all together their are 35 SK oil dealers in the state. Pointing out that the state government is not providing an equal amount of oil stock to the dealers in the state, he said that the amount of SK oil  in the last quarter of the year 2012-13 is 2,112 kilo litres allocated by the petroleum Planning and Analysis cell, New Delhi. During the first quarter of the present year April, May and June 2013-14 the Petroleum planning and analysis cell deducted 32 kilo litres per month from the SK oil quota of the state and the present state quota of the SK oil for the month is 2080 Kilo litres, he said.

He further said for the last 4th quarter of January to March of the 2012- 13, the state quota of the SK oil which is 2112 litres was distributed to all the districts of the state through all the district wise SK oil dealers.

He pointed out that out of the 2080 KL, only 1684 kilo litres are distributed to the district through SK oils dealers and the remaining 396 kilo Litres (3,96,000) litres is kept at the government pool at Krishna Premi oil at Moirangkhom. Out of the 396 kilo litres again, 177 kilo litres is reserved for the 59 MLAs of the state excluding Jiribam MLA with 3 kilo litres for each MLA and the remaining 219 kilo litres being further reserved for government pool. The SK oil dealers demanded to know why a huge quantity of oil was being kept reserved for  the government pool instead of distributing to the SK oil dealers for public distribution.

Contending that there was fluctuation on the allocation of oil stock to the dealers, the representative added that the present allocation system is unfair.

In light of the circumstances, the all Manipur SK oil dealers association has submitted a memorandum to the state Consumer affairs, food and public distribution Minister M Oken on May 10 requesting for a review of the existing allocation system.