Dharmendra Pradhan (File Photo) Dharmendra Pradhan (File Photo)State-run oil marketing companies (OMC) are plodding on framing enhanced penalties against corrupt petrol pump operators by amending the Marketing Discipline Guidelines (MDG) as the Petroleum Ministry is insisting on bringing errant OMC officers also under the purview of the revised MDG. On the issue of submitting the modified MDG, the OMCs promised to do it “shortly”. It issued a four-pronged strategy including an “immediate time-bound stringent departmental action” against OMC officers found guilty. It had reasoned that tampering was getting rampant primarily because neither the detection drive was being strictly followed by the OMCs’ sales officers nor a technical mechanism to detect them was foolproof. A Ministry note said that the repeated occurrence of such incidents was the unwarranted delays by the OMC officials in taking action against serious offences committed by the dealers.

Source: Indian Express September 28, 2017 00:33 UTC