Fuel bunks under scanner in AP: Minister
Deccan ChronicleVIJAYAWADA: Minister for civil supplies and consumer affairs Karumuri Venkata Nageswara Rao said that 29 cases were booked on fuel bunks and imposed fines ranging from Rs. Speaking to media persons here on Wednesday, the minister stated that they would continue to inspect all fuel bunks in the state in the remaining 23 districts in the next six months and warned the fuel bunk traders to book cases on them and produce them before the courts in case they repeat the violation of norms during the sale of fuel. The minister said that legal metrology authorities carried out an inspection on several shopping malls located in Vijayawada and Visakhapatnam and booked 156 cases and vowed to carry out a similar exercise in other cities and towns in the state soon. Later, the legal metrology joint controller B. Ram Kumar said that their teams checked certain technical parameters being followed in fuel bunks and booked cases for failing to comply with norms and added that they would complete the inspection of all fuel stations in the state in six months.
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