Addressing a press conference in the city, AGPPDA, President, Paresh Joshi said after series of meetings held in Mumbai, the oil companies have finally agreed to some of our demands and therefore the association has decided to differ the strike.
“If the demands are not fulfilled as promised by the oil companies, we will continue to go on strike. Our demands were very serious and to some extent the demands have been marginally accepted,” said Joshi.
“Our main demand with the oil companies was that to increase the dealer margin, which was very inadequate before but now the oil margin has been slightly increased and will be increased from effect November 15,” he added.
Further stating that profit margin received by the petrol pumps had not been increased since last two years and with increase in operational cost, it was becoming very difficult for the petrol pumps owners to operate.
In Goa the infrastructure at 99 percent petrol pumps has been provided by the oil companies, however, maintenance cost has to be borne by petrol pumps which again puts the pump owners to face hardships.
Meanwhile, the petrol pump owners across the state had earlier decided not to purchase fuel on two days on November 3 and 4 from the oil companies as a mark of protest over their long pending demands, including increase in margins on fuel sale.
The petrol pump owners across the state had decided to operate the fuel stations in a single shift between 9 a.m. and 6 p.m. on November 5 but as of now the strike has been deferred.
