Putting forward its 17-point demand, All Nepal Petroleum Labourer Association, affiliated to the Unified CPN (Maoist), has closed all pumps for the past five days, thus creating crisis of petroleum products.
The prolonged closure has affected all sectors with factories, transportation and schools being worst hit. School buses have been garaged for want of fuel.
Several efforts to cease the shortage holding talks among the local administration, pump owners and workers have not yield result yet.
Striking workers have continued their protests in front of the regional office of Nepal Oil Corporation, Biratnagar.
Among others their demands include: permanent status of those workers who have worked more than 250 days, provision of weekly off, insurance up to Rs. 1 million, facility of overtime if worked more than eight hours and bonus.
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