Govt to check pilferage in oil sector

PTI Updated - January 24, 2018 at 07:53 PM.

The Government today said it is aware of pilferages in the petroleum sector and will come out with a marketing plan to stop it through technological intervention. “We are aware about the leakages and pilferages. That has to be stopped through technological intervention,” Oil Minister Dharmendra Pradhan said in Rajya Sabha.

He said a lot of pilferages and leakages occur in mid-stream and downstream sector.

“This country has to upgrade its marketing network. We have to modernise ourselves. Through massive technological intervention only, this can be solved. This new Government is on the job,” Pradhan said.

Published on May 6, 2015 15:28