Apr 03, Kathmandu- Despite the increase in the use of electric vehicles, the consumption of petroleum products has not decreased in the Nepalgunj. According to the data of the Nepal Oil Corporation Limited fuel depot in Nepalgunj, the sales rate of petroleum products has increased this year compared to last year.

Manohar DC, head of the fuel depot here, informed that the sales rate of petrol has increased by 10 percent, diesel by five percent, kerosene by four percent and LP gas by six percent compared to the same period of the previous fiscal year.

According to him, by the end of Falgun of the current fiscal year, 19,742 kiloliters of petrol, 50,798 kiloliters of diesel, 332 kiloliters of kerosene and 31,962 kiloliters of LP gas have been sold from the depot. By the same period of the last fiscal year, 17,927 kiloliters of petrol, 48,390 kiloliters of diesel, 320 kiloliters of kerosene and 30,293 kiloliters of LP gas had been sold.

The depot has a storage capacity of 970 kiloliters of petrol, 2,280 kiloliters of diesel, 140 kiloliters of kerosene and 280 kiloliters of LP gas, informed the Chief DC. The depot has been selling petroleum products to 106 dealers in Banke, Bardiya, Dang, Pyuthan and Rolpa in Lumbini Province and Salyan, Surkhet, Jumla, West Rukum, Dolpa and Jajarkot in Karnali Province.