9 NE LPG bottling plants reopen today after 6 days of strike

Guwahati: After 6 days of strike by the North East Packed LPG Transporter Association, as many as 9 LPG cylinder bottling plants reopened on Wednesday after discussions and deliberations with representatives of the Assam Government and Indian Oil Corporation (IOC).

The bottling plants which resumed operations from today are the North Guwahati Bottling Plant, Bongaigaon plant, Mirza bottling plant, Gopanari plant, Tinsukia plant, Duliajan Plant, Sekmai plant, Dimapur plant, and Tripura bottling plant.

As per reports, the carriers' body has withdrawn the strike the Assam government intervened in the matter. To discuss a meeting held on Tuesday with Food and Civil Supplies Minister Phani Bhusan Choudhury, as well as Indian Oil Corporation authorities.

On August 29 last, an indefinite strike had been called by The North East Packed LPG Transporter Association against an alleged "conspiracy" to move the Indian Oil Corporation's tender The NEPLTA said it was protesting against the floating of the tender from Kolkata instead of Guwahati, lowering of existing rates, increasing the carrying capacity, and some other issues it had with the OIL.

The carriers' body currently operates around 5,000 trucks to transport LPG cylinders from IOC's bottling plants to various distributors across the state of Assam.

The OIL, in response, said that the strike was hurting customers badly at a time when the entire country is reeling under the coronavirus crisis. "Every day, nearly 1.5 lakh customers are affected by the strike and as the strike enters the 4th day today, nearly six lakh customers have been deprived of an LPG cylinder," the IOC said in a statement.

The IOC management also requested the transporters to withdraw the strike, which they claimed occurred without a warning. Today, they have finally complied with requests to withdraw the strike at the Assam Government's request.

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