As if taking a clue from the public transports, the petrol pump and tank-lorry owners are now demanding that the government raise commissions on fuel sales and transportation fares following the recent hike in fuel prices, reports UNB.
According to sources in the re-fuelling business, the leaders of the Bangladesh Petrol Pump and Tank-Lorry Owners Workers Unity Council, a representative body of the both operators and workers, held a meeting on November 14 to negotiate the demand with the Bangladesh Petroleum Corporation (BPC).
But the meeting ended inconclusively, the sources said.
"But no concrete decision has come from the meeting as the BPC took time to hold an inter-ministerial meeting to take opinions from the other ministries concerned", said Nazmul Haque, president of the unity council, also the president of Bangladesh Petrol Pump Owners Association (BPPOA) which also held separate meeting with the BPC on the same issue .
He, however, informed that a 12- point demand of the unity council was placed to the BPC. The organisation has been urging the government for long to meet their demands.
"But the latest phase of fuel price rise has pushed us into to an unbearable situation," he told UNB.
Nazmul said they will go for action programme to realise their demands if the BPC fails to raise their commissions within a week or two.
The government raised the prices of diesel and kerosene to Tk 80 per litre from Tk 65 with effect from November 4 this month.
In line with the rise in fuel prices, the government raised fares of bus, trucks, launches and other mode of vehicles run by diesel.
As per demand, the petrol pump owners want the government to raise the commissions on retail sales to 7 per cent from the existing 3 per cent on diesel and 4 per cent on octane sales and in terms of Taka, it is to be Tk 0.75 per litre from the existing Tk 0.50.
