Diesel shortage hits city (India)

HYDERABAD: Even as the city’s denizens are reeling under a power shortage, in a strange combination of disparate factors, the city was hit by severe diesel shortage on Tuesday.

Several petrol bunks of Bharat Petroleum ran out of diesel stock in the morning. As motorists had to go round the city to fill diesel, even petrol bunks of Indian Oil Corporation and Hindustan Petroleum put up no stock boards at some places as they too ran out of stock.

In fact, the oil companies reportedly began the reduction in the supplies — read rationing — from July 1 and diesel shortage started three days ago in the city but it was not alarming. Oil companies were also not supplying petrol and diesel stocks as per the indent and demand of dealers.

TimesofIndia