The Hindu Business Line : BPCL to set up 250 truckers' shops by '09

Visakhapatnam March 11 Bharat Petroleum Corporation Ltd (BPCL) plans to set up 250 one-stop truckers' shops (company's exclusive outlets on the highways with all amenities for truck and car drivers) by 2009, according to Mr S. Krishna Murti, Executive Director (Retail).

Currently, the company has 80 such outlets in the country and two in Andhra Pradesh.

He was speaking to the press at Yelamanchili in Visakhapatnam district on Saturday evening after inaugurating a one-stop truckers' shop on the National Highway number five.

He said it was the second in the State, the first being set up at Gutti in Anantapur district, on the Hyderabad-Bangalore highway. He said 12 more such outlets would be set up in Andhra Pradesh.

He said on the aggregate, the company would be spending Rs 3 crore or so on each such outlet, to be located on an extent of five to six acres, and each outlet would have all amenities.

Each exclusive outlet, named Ghar, would have a dormitory, a restaurant, an amphi-theatre for entertainment and enough moving space. There would be separate sections for truck drivers and car owners/drivers. These outlets would have saloons, healthcare centres and clean toilets.

He said the company had spent Rs 4.91 crore on the Yelamanchili OSTS. Besides these exclusive outlets, he said, the company was also planning to upgrade 1200 outlets of the dealers. "In those outlets, the amenities may be on a slightly lesser scale. But they will also be comfortable," he said.

Ms Dipti Sanzgiri, General Manager (Finance), Mr. V. Sreehari, Territory Manager, Visakhapatnam, also participated in the function.

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