Poor man’s fuel, kerosene, runs mafia dreams

The repeated increase in the price of petrol and aviation fuel, purportedly due to the rising cost of oil in the international market, has raised some pertinent questions regarding the government’s policy of subsidising kerosene. It is a widely accepted fact that the poor, who are the target population of the kerosene subsidy, do not get the fuel at a lower price and sometimes do not get any fuel at all because it is siphoned off into the flourishing black market.

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