The situation at petrol pumps in Punjab has returned to normal after the truck drivers’ sit-in against the ‘hit and run’ law brought by the central government ended late at night. Today, people reached the petrol pumps to get oil as usual, and they got oil as usual. Although there was a huge crowd at almost all the petrol pumps in the state due to the truck drivers’ strike last day and the petrol pumps ran out of oil, but after the end of the truck drivers’ strike late at night, the oil tankers returned to the petrol pumps. have started arriving at
It is to be mentioned that long queues of motorists were formed on January 2 at most of the petrol pumps in Punjab and Haryana. Gurmeet Monty Sehgal, Spokesperson of Petrol Pump Dealers Association Punjab said that the situation at petrol pumps in Punjab is getting back to normal now. Since late night, oil supply has started reaching all the pumps from the oil depots as before. Meanwhile, the supply of oil has reached more petrol pumps, while the supply will reach some depots soon. He appealed to the people that now there is no need for anyone to panic. It is to be noted that there are 3943 petrol pumps in Punjab, out of which about 80 percent of the petrol pumps had run out of oil the previous day. Due to the strike of truck drivers, the prices of vegetables also increased, while there was a fear of shortage of daily use items, but due to the end of the strike of truck drivers, the life of the common people has come back on track.
