AGARTALA, March 14 (TIWN): Just before the state could recover from the crisis of petrol, the state is once again hit with diesel crisis. It seems that the state will not get respite from the continoius petrol and diesel crisis in the state.

After experiencing an acute shortage of petrol for the past few days now the people are also facing the shortage of Diesel in the state. This has forced petrol pumps to ration the diesel and as a result hundreds of vehicles were seen in queue in front of petrol pump for refilling their vehicle tanks.

It may be mentioned here that the fuel that comes to the state from Assam has been disrupted due to the crippled condition of National Highway (NH) 44 in Assam section. And the same has hit the stock of petroleum products of the state and by that time demand of petrol and diesel went up drastically among the people. The NH 44 serves as the lifeline for Tripura, Mizoram, southern Assam (known as Barak Valley) and western Manipur.

Agartala is experiencing an acute shortage of diesel for the past few days. Most of the petrol pumps are not having diesel.

However, for the past few days these vehicles have to wait for at least two hours every morning to get diesel.
It was reported that from the past few days all the petrol pumps of Agartala and other major cities has been witnessing a long queue for getting fuel morning to till night but many of them went back in empty tanks. Hundreds of vehicles were seen in queue in front of petrol filling station while many centres had hanged the board of no-diesel.
In the beginning the shortage affected heavy vehicles requiring large diesel refill, but has eventually hit the normal commuters as well. As things stand, many trucks are on standby on city outskirts in demand of diesel.

The acute diesel as well as petrol crisis created chaos among the state people. Following the crisis in Tripura, movement of vehicles has been collapsed partially. Especially the vehicles move to out of the state is facing difficulties at such situation.

 Reportedly, for last one month the peoples of the city are facing a huge crisis of petrol with most of the pumps shut down while huge queue noticed outside the petrol pump which is operational in the city. Due to this people were seen waiting for refilling their vehicle tanks. While most of the pumps supplied fuel in short, other few ones were open for the whole day facing huge crowd of vehicles.