The office was inaugurated in presence of Bhaskar Jyoti Phukan, Managing Director Numaligarh Refinery Limited (NRL). Also present on the occasion were Khalid Ahmed, Director (O&P), Bangladesh Petroleum Corporation (BPC), and Md. Tipu Sultan, MD, Meghna Petroleum Ltd and senior officers of NRL. This is the first overseas office of the NRL.
The amount by which the government has reduced the prices is so meagre – and so thoroughly insufficient to address the corresponding increase in the cost of living – that we can’t help but ask: Why even bother?