Parsa. In the eight months of the current fiscal year, petroleum products worth Rs 122.2 billion have been imported through the Birgunj border. Diesel, petrol, liquefied petroleum gas (LPG), aviation turbine fuel (ATF) and kerosene have been imported.
In the same period of the current fiscal year, petroleum products worth Rs 1.67 billion were imported compared to the eight months of the previous fiscal year. Petroleum products worth Rs 120.53 billion were imported in the eight months of the previous fiscal year. Deepak Lamichhane, Chief Customs Administrator of the Birgunj Customs Office, said that the import of petroleum products and revenue have increased in the current fiscal year.
‘It seems that the import of petroleum products has increased because it is the time for infrastructure construction,’ he said. According to the office, in the eight months of the current fiscal year, 50.13 billion rupees have been collected from the import of all types of petroleum products. In the same period of the previous fiscal year, 44.80 billion rupees were collected.
Chief Customs Administrator Lamichhane said that in the eight months of the current fiscal year, 685,991 kiloliters of diesel worth 61.45 billion rupees were collected, amounting to 27.31 billion rupees. Similarly, in the eight months of the current fiscal year, 290,382 kiloliters of petrol worth 25.30 billion rupees were imported, resulting in a revenue of 16.48 billion rupees.
In the eight months of the current fiscal year, 2142,781 kilograms of LPG gas worth 24.5 billion rupees were imported. This has generated a revenue of 5.5 billion rupees. In the first eight months of the last fiscal year, 186.812 million kilograms of LPG gas worth 19.52 billion rupees were imported.
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