Consumers across Nepal are facing shortage of petroleum products Tuesday as the main opposition party Unified Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist)-affiliated All Nepal Petroleum Workers Union (ANPWU) shut down all private petrol pumps in the capital Kathmandu Valley for an indefinite period starting Sunday. Although petrol pumps outside Kathmandu are open, they have not provided petrol to consumers as ANPWU members have been picketing all nine depots of Nepal Oil Corporation across the nation preventing dealers from getting the supply. Most of the pumps in the capital had stopped giving petrol from Friday itself. Only government owned petrol pumps were open in the valley on Sunday. Consumers had to queue up for hours before getting rationed amount of petrol and diesel from such pumps. ANPWU is agitating with various 16 demands including appointment letter to the employees, a pay equivalent to or more than that prescribed by the government, overtime pay for working extra-time and a life insurance cover. 