AMN /
India resumed fuel supplies to Nepal through its Raxaul border after agitating Madhesis called off their nearly five-month-long blockade on Monday.
Obstruction by protesters was removed from the main ‘Maitreyi’ Bridge connecting the two countries.
Of the total fuel consumption in Nepal, 70 per cent fuel is supplied through this transit route. Indian Oil Corporation’s Raxaul depot loaded 3 lakh litres of petroleum products into Nepal Oil Corporation tankers and sent them to Nepal.
As the demonstrations eased at the transit route from Friday, Nepal Oil Corporation appealed to Indian Oil Corporation for uninterrupted supply of oil through the Raxaul border.
The blockade had caused much hardship to the general public as they were faced with acute shortage of petroleum products, cooking gas, medicines and other essentials.