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DRY DAYS IN HYDERABAD: Supply fails to meet the demand of diesel in the city.

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Hyderabad: Hyderabad is experiencing an acute shortage of diesel for the past few days. This has forced petrol pumps to ration the fuel and as a result cabs are steering out of business.

"Due to this diesel shortage, all my cars are getting stopped. My cars were taken on finance. Business is affected as drivers are unable to take the cars out due to lack of diesel,” said Mohammed Aslam. He is a supervisor for a cab service and supplies cabs to several IT companies in the city. However, for the past few days his cabs have to wait for at least four hours every morning to get diesel.

The actual reason for the dry-out remains largely speculative. Especially, as the oil companies have chosen to remain quiet.

This acute shortage has forced petrol pumps to ration the fuel. As a result, a maximum limit of 20 litres of diesel is allowed per car. Only school buses are not bound by this limit.

"The oil companies have unofficially implemented quotas. Due to this, the supply is not meeting the demand,” said Janardhan Reddy, an employee at Bharat Petroleum outlet in the city.

The outlet, which requires about 45,000 litres of diesel every day, is hardly getting a supply of 25,000 litres a day to satisfy the need of the customers.

"Earlier they increased the price of diesel. Now, alongwith the increased price, they're reduced the quantity of supply,” said a cab driver.

The city is going through a major fuel crisis but the state Civil Supplies Department continues to maintain that it is doing its best to bring in additional supplies.