Petrol price hiked 50 paise, diesel up 55 paise
The Hindu
Petrol in Delhi will now cost ₹99.11 per litre as against ₹98.61 previously while diesel rates have gone up from ₹89.87 per litre to ₹90.42.
Petrol price on Sunday was hiked by 50 paise a litre and diesel by 55 paise, taking the total increase in rates since resumption of daily price revision less than a week back to ₹3.70-3.75 per litre.
Petrol in Delhi will now cost ₹99.11 per litre as against ₹98.61 previously while diesel rates have gone up from ₹89.87 per litre to ₹90.42, according to a price notification of State fuel retailers.
Rates have been increased across the country and vary from State to State depending upon the incidence of local taxation.
This is the fifth increase in prices since the ending of a four-and-half-month long hiatus in rate revision on March 22. On all the previous four occasions, prices had been increased by 80 paise a litre—the steepest single-day rise since the daily price revision was introduced in June 2017.
In all, petrol prices have gone up by ₹3.70 per litre and diesel by ₹3.75 in six days.
Prices had been on a freeze since November 4 ahead of the assembly elections in States like Uttar Pradesh and Punjab—a period during which the cost of raw material (crude oil) soared by about $30 per barrel.
The rate revision was expected soon after counting of votes on March 10 but it was put off by a couple of weeks apparently to not give opposition leaders like Rahul Gandhi a handle to say that they had rightly predicted that prices will go up after elections.
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