PAC directed Nepal Oil Corporation to hand over fuel import contract ASAP

Kathmandu October 11- The Legislature-Parliament’s Public Accounts Committee, PAC on Friday directed the Nepal Oil Corporation to speed up the process of handing over the contract on airlifting petroleum products. The PAC directed the NOC to shortlist the preferred bidder and hand over the contract within few days of getting bid documents from interested parties.

The state-owned fuel monopoly on Thursday published a global tender notice, calling on interested parties to submit bid documents for supply of aviation turbine fuel, petrol, diesel, kerosene and LPG (cooking gas) for 15 days. Bid documents have to be submitted within three days of issuance of the tender notice.

PAC members criticized the government for failing to do the needful to ease the supplies following the obstruction at Nepal-India border. CPN-UML lawmaker and PAC member Pashupati Chaulagain demanded that an state of emergency be declared if needed  to clear obstruction and resume supplies.

Nepali Congress lawmakers Ram Hari Khatiwada and Dhan Raj Gurung said the government side has utterly failed to make it clear whether it is a blockade imposed by India or the obstruction by the agitating Madhesi parties. Khatiwada was of the opinion that the government should declare emergency if such a measure could normalise the situation.Source: The Himalayan Times