Petroleum products worth Rs 122.2 billion have been imported through Birgunj border transit point in the last eight months of the current fiscal year, 2024/25.

The imported petroleum products include diesel, petrol, liquefied petroleum gas (LPG), aviation turbine fuel (ATF) and kerosene.

Petroleum products worth Rs 1.67 billion more were imported in the eight months of the current fiscal year as compared to the same period previous fiscal year, 2023/24. Petroleum products worth Rs 120.53 billion were imported in the eight months of the last fiscal year.

Deepak Lamichhane, chief customs administrator at Birgunj Customs Office, said revenue from import of petroleum products has also increased along with the imports in the current fiscal year.

"The import of petroleum products seems to have increased as it is the time for infrastructure construction," he said.

According to the Office, Rs 50.13 billion revenue has been collected from the import of all types of petroleum products in the eight months of the current fiscal year.

Revenue of Rs 44.80 billion was collected in the same period of the last fiscal year.

Chief Customs Administrator Lamichhane said Rs 27.31 billion revenue was collected from the import of 685,991 kiloliters of diesel worth Rs 61.45 billion in the eight months of the current fiscal year.

Similarly, 290,382 kilolitres of petrol worth Rs 25.30 billion was imported in the eight months of the current fiscal year, resulting in the collection of Rs 16.48 billion in revenue.

A total of 210 million 42 thousand and 781 kilograms of LPG worth Rs 24.05 billion has been imported in the eight months of the current fiscal year. A total of Rs 4.5 billion revenue has been collected from this.

In the eight months of the last fiscal year, 186.812 million kilograms of LPG worth Rs 19.52 billion was imported, the Office said.