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</p><p>&nbsp; Tripura to introduce the "Odd-Even" system but this time it has nothing to do with air quality and pollution but to tackle extreme shortage in petrol and diesel supply in the region due to acute poor condition of highways connecting it, resulting in trucks can’t reach the destination. Tripura Food and Civil Supplies Minister Bhanulal Saha said "Only 50 percent of the required fuels are reaching our state due to which we had to go for rationing of petrol. In spite of this we are unable to fulfill the demand and control a section of people who are doing irregularities. Now a new suggestion has come to introduce the supply at filling station on alternate days of odd and even vehicle registration number system. There are around 1,43,000 bikes in and around Agartala municipal area. We are trying to divide the pressure on the filling stations by this."</p><p>&nbsp; Throwing clarity on the system minister said from Tuesday, vehicles with odd registration numbers will get fuel only on odd dates and those with even registration numbers on even dates as only 50% of total needed supply is able to reach. He even said, "In Tripura West district, the number of bikes on roads is 1,43,000 and the odd-even formula will reduce the number of petrol seekers to just half on a single day. This will ease the unnecessary congestion in the streets." Believing Mr. Saha, the new system was only being introduced to tackle the petroleum fuel crisis and to black market the same. Region is also facing crisis of LPG and essential commodities in the state for the last two months. Protesting the ‘odd-even’ system, hundreds of bikers staged blockade in the city for withdrawing of system and to tackle the situation instead arrange for fuel through Bangladesh or special train.&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp; Heavy rains have uprooted asphalt and unable to repair them now, the NH-8 has turned into a slippery muddy blind road which connects Tripura with the rest of India through Assam and Meghalaya but due to the poor road condition thousands of trucks and oil tankers were stuck in Assam’s Lowerpoha area bordering Tripura causing tension and trouble among the localities. The government has assured that highways will be repaired at earliest to resume the road service and needed steps will be taken to handle the situation.</p><p></p>