Facing difficulties in daily operations due to constant increase of fuel prices by oil marketing companies, the Consortium of Indian Petroleum Dealers’ Association representing the fuel retail outlets, has threatened to go on a one-day strike next week.
Tamil Nadu Petroleum Dealers Association, a member of the CIPDA, on Wednesday said 40,000 petrol pump owners would be on strike countrywide on December 24 if their demands were not met.
“As per the decision taken by the Consortium of Indian Petroleum Dealer’s Association, 4,000 petrol outlets in Tamil Nadu will be closed for 24 hours beginning from the midnight of December 24 while countrywide it will be 40,000 outlets”, Tamil Nadu Petroleum Dealers Association, general secretary M Haider Ali told reporters here.
—PTI