Kathmandu, March 13 -- The state monopoly Nepal Oil Corporation (NOC) from Friday has started rationing the Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) or the cooking gas to manage demand surge as the conflict in West Asia completed its second week, halting the supply.

Following the orders from NOC, bottling plants have started to sell half-filled cylinders to customers, forcing people to stand in serpentine lines for hours.

"It's not easy to get the (Liquefied Petroleum) gas. It is really hard to get the refilled ones. I came here (at the depot) at 10 in the morning and till now it has been about four hours, I haven't got hold of a single filled cylinder. It's uncertain whether I will get the gas or not," Prem Krishna Shahi, a Nepali consumer, told ...