Bhubaneswar: Odisha’s Food Supplies and Consumer Welfare Minister Krushna Chandra Patra today informed ₹69,000 has been collected in fines this year from petrol pumps found guilty of defrauding consumers. A total of seven fuel pumps across the State have been penalised.

Replying to a query from BJD legislator Chakramani Kanhar in the Odisha Legislative Assembly, the Minister further stated in 2024–25, fines amounting to ₹1.61 lakh were collected from 15 fuel pumps for cheating consumers by tampering with dispensing units and delivering less fuel.

Regular raids and inspections are being carried out, and legal action is being taken against offenders under the Legal Metrology Act, 2009 and the Odisha Legal Metrology (Enforcement) Rules, 2011, Patra added.

He also said awareness campaigns

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