The Davangere district administration implemented a successfull diesel quota system.
"The Davangere district administration has managed to tide over the diesel crisis and ensure equitable distribution of diesel to vehicles and choultries where it is used for power generation. It has also been able to prevent the hoarding and black marketing of diesel in the district.
When the problem of diesel shortage came up in the district a week ago, the district administration held a meeting with the lorry owners and private bus owners’ associations, farmers, petroleum outlet owners, oil companies and the Road Transport Authority.
The district administration made it mandatory to produce RC (certificate of registration) books to get the day’s quota of diesel. It instructed the owners of vehicles to affix a white paper on the back of the RC book and get it attested by the tahsildar. Only by producing the RC book could vehicle owners purchase the permitted quota of diesel for the day. Once the diesel was purchased, an entry would be made on the white paper so that the same vehicle owner could not purchase diesel from some other outlet.
A certain quantity of diesel was allotted depending on the type of vehicle. However, vehicles of the Police and Health departments and the Fire Services were exempted. Similarly it was decided to give diesel to vehicles from other places to ensure that tourists did not suffer.
Once the district administration made it compulsory to produce the RC book to purchase diesel, the rush at the petroleum outlets came down remarkably."
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If the same model could be applied in bigger cities like Bengaluru, it would prevent wasteful consumption of diesel. In addition, the State Government should seriously consider popularising the use of honge oil as biodiesel as it is being done in small parts of the state.
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