Over 70,000 petrol pumps across 18 states in India are threatening to restrict the work to 8 hours a day from October 15 if demands including rise in commission on sale of petroleum products were not met by the oil companies.
Petrol pumps normally operate for 12-hours a day.
M Haider Ali, CIPD Association Secretary said, "About 70,000 petrol pumps across 18 states and over 3,600 in Tamil Nadu would work on single shift basis eight hours a day from October 15 onwards if our demands are not met, in order to cut down our cost on salaries and electricity charges".
Confederation of Indian Petroleum Dealers (CIPD) will also stop purchase of fuel from oil companies on October 1 and 2.
"This will be affected on the two days. It will create huge losses to the Government. We want the Ministry to take note of our protest and take steps to implement the Apoorva Chandra Committee recommendations," he added.
Petroleum Dealers are in deep financial trouble because of increased operational costs and have no choice but to cut the cost of operations.
CIPD wrote to the Oil Ministry, "With our backs to the wall, it was resolved that the retail outlets will operate single shift from October 15 to cut costs on manpower and electricity as acute austerity measures".
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