July 19: Nepal Oil Corporation (NOC) has implemented security locking system in Province 1 for fuel tanks importing fuel from India. The locking system was inaugurated at the NOC state office amid an event on Sunday, July 15.

The security locking system was launched after being approved by the authorities of Nepal Oil Corporation and Indian Oil Corporation.

Ram Prasad Acharya, Chief District Officer of Morang district, and Sushil Bhattarai, CEO of Nepal Oil Corporation, inaugurated the locking system by opening the locks of the fuel tanks arriving from Barauni, India.

Sushil Bhattarai while speaking at the inauguration ceremony informed that the locking system will help in curbing fuel leakage. He also expressed his anger towards individuals who had opposed the idea of locking system.

NOC has been importing fuels from Siligudi and Barauni depot in Province 1. 

The fuel tanks are locked upon loading the fuel at the depot in India and are opened only in Nepal to stop the leakage.

Bhanu Bhakta Acharya, provincial chief of NOC, informed that the locking system will stop adulteration and theft of fuel.     

Three hundred and fifty fuel tanks are mobilized to import 244,000 kilo liters of diesel and 66,000 kilo liters of petrol fuel to the central depot of NOC in Biratnagar and the province has been importing 90 percent of its fuel from Barauni.