Assam’s Numaligarh refinery keen to set up retail outlets in Myanmar

The state-owned Numaligarh Refinery Limited (NRL) in Assam plans to enter neighbouring Myanmar by setting up retail outlets once the situation is conducive in the trouble-torn country.

Chairman and Managing Director of NRL, Bhaskar Jyoti Phukan, said: “We are now working in Bangladesh. Myanmar has been on our radar for quite some time. In the past we had exported through roads directly from Numaligarh to Moreah covering roughly 421 km.”

“The regime change had delayed the plan. The area close to Moreah on the Indian side is Sagaing region of Myanmar. This is an area of high potential, a totally unserviced area. Around 40 lakh people are living in the area. We have chalked out a detailed plan for it,” Phukan told the media.