It’s an odd-even formula with a difference. After the Tripura government introduced rationing of fuel to tackle the acute fuel crisis in the State, the government has now enforced an odd-even formula.
Fuel will be sold to consumers depending on the registration number of their vehicles. “Today vehicles with even registration number are getting fuel, tomorrow it is for vehicles with odd number. This alternative method will go on for some weeks till the situation normalises,” a state government official said.
The State has been reeling under an unprecedented shortage of petro products for the past two months owing to damaged stretches of the Assam–Agartala national highway.
Repair work of roads yield little result
Repair work by the National Highway Authority of India with support from the Assam and Tripura PWD has so far yielded little result. The condition on the Assam side of National Highway 44 is worse and most of the vehicles are struck there.
Dozers are being used to push trucks loaded with commodities and oil tankers, but only a few hundred vehicles are able to cross the damaged section of the highway in a day. The occasional rain is disrupting the repair work.
Prices of essential commodities, poultry, fish and other edible items have been going up.
Trinamool blames Assam govt, Centre for the crisis
Meanwhile, the Trinamool Congress, boosted by the joining of a large number of leaders, including six MLAs, from the Congress, lambasted the BJP governments at the Centre and Assam for the ongoing crisis.
It also hit out the Left Front government.
It claimed that the CPIM was conspiring to prolong the crisis so that the rally of Mamata Banerjee in Agartala on August 9 is affected.
