The government is promoting the black market in fuel, citing the petroleum shortage due to the blockade imposed by India and the Madhes unrest, according to industrialists. The shortage of fuel due to the supply chain disruption has been a boon to black marketeers and they have raked in about half a billion rupees in the last five days, they said and alleged that the illegal money has been pocketed by some officials of Nepal Oil Corporation (NOC), depot heads and even some politicians. “How can they pocket the illegal money so easily without the involvement of higher-up government officials and politicians,” the industrialists asked.
