Manipur CM's plea to Centre
New Delhi   19-Dec-2010

Lamenting that the Centre has not fulfilled the long-pending demand of the State to enhance its fuel storage capacity, the Manipur Chief Minister, Mr O. Ibobi Singh, today said had the delay taken place in States such as West Bengal or Maharashtra the situation could have turned violent. "It is an eight-year-old demand to increase the fuel storage capacity of the State... The present storage capacity is very less and people face problem when fuel supplies run out," Mr Singh said at the plenary session of AICC here. Mr Singh claimed that despite the IndianOil (IOC) being allocated with land to set up a bigger depot so that the storage capacity could be increased to three months from the present 13 days, no action has been taken so far.