Last Tuesday Nepal ended the five-month long rationing of fuel it had been forced to impose. Thousands of people have welcomed the move after having a quota of merely five litres of petrol for two-wheelers and 15 litres for four-wheelers, reported the Himalayan Times.
The fuel scarcity started five months ago when social protests over the new Constitution ended up with an unofficial blockade from India, the Himalayan country´s main source of energy products.
Now the Indian Oil Corporation (IOC) is increasing fuel supply by the day and the Nepalese Ministry of Supplies (MoS) has seen it fit to return to normal supply without restrictions.
Fears of future scarcity problems have not disappeared, however, with the ethnic group Madhesi threatening to resume the border blockade at any time as they seek more constitutional power.
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