Oil companies rush petroleum supplies to Kashmir Division through alternative routes
Mumbai   17-Sep-2014

The three Oil Marketing Companies (OMCs), IndianOil, Bharat Petroleum Corporation and Hindustan Petroleum Corporation, are implementing a contingency plan to restore normalcy in petroleum supplies in the flood-affected areas of Jammu & Kashmir at the earliest. Senior OMC officials, camping at Jammu and Srinagar, are carefully monitoring the situation.

In view of the continuing inaccessibility of Kashmir Division from Jammu through the arterial national highway (1A), alternative routes identified by the State and district administrations are being explored to expedite loads to the flood-affected areas. Arrangements are being made for moving LPG cylinders in small vehicles through alternative routes till such time NH-1A is reopened for heavy vehicular.

As part of rescue supplies, over 50 loads of petrol and diesel and over 30 loads of LPG cylinders were dispatched to Kashmir Division by road through alternative routes on priority from as far as Kargil, Leh, Chandigarh, Jalandhar and Bahadurgarh in the last three days.

These loads are in addition to the many trucks stranded on the highways and major roads en route to Srinagar and Kargil, some of which are being diverted to the nearest accessible petrol pumps.