COLOMBO (News 1st); Minister of Power and Energy Kanchana Wijesekara has tweeted saying that 1044 filling stations island-wide have received stocks of both Diesel and Petrol in the last 3 days.

However, he said that 40 filling stations have not received either stocks adding that most of those filling stations are inactive, have not ordered fuel, or have had their services suspended.

In addition, Urban stations are given stocks twice daily, some once-daily n all others every other day, he noted.

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