Consumer card in controversy

KATHMANDU, OCT 10: 

Nepal Gas Dealers’ Union has expressed dissatisfaction over government’s decision to delegate the authority to distribute consumer cards to Gas Dealers Federation of Nepal. 

Government, last April, had decided to appoint the federation as a facilitating agency for the Liquefied Petroleum Gas card distribution process. The union has blamed that the federation has been involved in corruption in the name of card distribution. 

Nepal Oil Corporation should distribute consumer cards instead of either the federation or the union, union said, adding federation has been enjoying political protection. Government has accepted the syndicate system of the federation by providing it a job that should have been carried out by the government itself, said president of the union Birendra Pradhananga. 

However, the federation has claimed that it has already distributed cards to more than 300,000 consumers. A total of 12,000 consumers throughout the country, and at least 2,700 in Kathmandu valley are affiliated to the federation, according to it.

Source: THT