Petrol pump owners observe 6-hr strike

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Bangladesh Petrol Pump and Tank Lorry Owners and Labour Oikya Parishad, a platform of petrol pumps and tank lorry owners, enforced a six-hour strike since 6:00am Sunday to press home their 13-point demand.
It demanded accident insurance for petrol pump workers, an end to the harassment by police in the name of checking documents of tank-lorries on highways and an increase in tank-lorry fare.
The other demands include formulation of a policy regarding installation of pumps and testing laboratory in all depots and increasing the tank lorry fair.
The government did not adopt any policy to install petrol pumps and the commission on sales of petroleum oils dropped to 2 percent from 5 percent in 1990, BSS quoted Nazmul Huq, president of the parishad, as telling the state-run news agency on Saturday.
There are 2,706 petrol pumps and 5,304 dealers and tank-lorry outlets in the country.