Birgunj: Petroleum products worth Rs 122.2 billion have been imported through the Birgunj border transit point in the last eight months of the current fiscal year, 2024/25. The imported petroleum products include diesel, petrol, liquefied petroleum gas (LPG), aviation turbine fuel (ATF), and kerosene.
According to National News Agency Nepal, petroleum products worth Rs 1.67 billion more were imported in the eight months of the current fiscal year compared to the same period in the previous fiscal year, 2023/24, when imports were valued at Rs 120.53 billion. Deepak Lamichhane, chief customs administrator at Birgunj Customs Office, reported an increase in revenue from these imports in the current fiscal year.
“The import of petroleum products seems to have increased as it is the time for infrastructure construction,” Lamichhane stated. The Office disclosed that Rs 50.13 billion in revenue has been collected from the import of all types of petroleum products in the first eight months of the current fiscal year, compared to Rs 44.80 billion collected during the same period last year.
Chief Customs Administrator Lamichhane further detailed that Rs 27.31 billion in revenue was collected from the import of 685,991 kiloliters of diesel, worth Rs 61.45 billion, during this period. Additionally, 290,382 kiloliters of petrol, worth Rs 25.30 billion, were imported, resulting in the collection of Rs 16.48 billion in revenue.
The import of LPG also saw a significant increase, with 210 million 42 thousand and 781 kilograms valued at Rs 24.05 billion being imported, generating Rs 4.5 billion in revenue. In contrast, 186.812 million kilograms of LPG, worth Rs 19.52 billion, were imported during the same months of the previous fiscal year.