KARACHI: Pakistan Petroleum Dealers Association (PPDA) on Saturday announced a complete shutdown of petrol pumps from July 18, 2022 in protest of rise in cost of doing business and falling dealers margin.
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Abdul Sami Khan, Chairman, PPDA at a meeting discussed the current dealers margin, which were forcing petroleum dealers to shut down their business. The association demanded that the dealers margin should be enhanced to 6 per cent.
Sami Khan said that due to high cost of electricity their profit margin declined drastically. Besides, massive hike in prices of petroleum products also affected their business adversely.
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He further added, the protest shut down would continue till the demands were accepted. He said that fuel stations could not continue supply while sustaining continuous losses. At present the dealers are receiving margin after deduction of tax at Rs3.20 per liter on diesel and Rs3.90 on petrol per liter.
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He also recalled the promise of increasing margin to 4.5 per cent given by the previous PTI government but due to increased prices of diesel and petrol, the PPDA is facing many problems in operating the fuel stations.
The chairman threatened the present coalition government led by PML-N to close down the fuel stations if the demand of increasing margin to 6 per cent is not accepted.
