Nepal's consular general in Lhasa, Hari Prasad Bashyal, has said that the fuel that China had promised as grant will reach Kerung-Rasuwagadhi border point on Saturday.

Talking to the Post through telephone on Thursday consular general Bashyal said, “The petroleum product will arrive at Kerung on Saturday.” The NOC has provided details of 40 oil tankers to the Chinese authority to facilitate their entry into China. The Nepali tankers will fill the petroleum products at Kerung that is 22 km away from Rasuwagadi.

Rasuwa Chief District Officer Shiva Ram Gelal after a meeting on Wednesday with Chinese high officials at Jilongcounty, Kerung informed that the petroleum products have left for Kerung. China has agreed to immediately supply of over 1 million litres of fuel to Nepal.

As the country’s fragile economy continues to reel under severe fuel shortage due to an “unofficial trade embargo” imposed by India, the government took an unprecedented move to appoint its second oil trading partner and signed a historic oil trade deal with China on Wednesday, ending a four-decade supply monopoly of the Indian Oil Corporation.