With the hike of 50 paise in the price of petrol and 55 paise increase on diesel on Sunday, the rates have been increased by ₹3.70 per litre in five days.
After the latest price revision, petrol in Delhi will be sold at ₹99.11 per litre and diesel at ₹90.42 per litre. The petrol will cost ₹113.88 after an increase of by 53 paise and after the hike by 58 paise diesel will be sold at ₹98.13 in the finance capital Mumbai. In Mumbai, the prices are the highest among all the metros cities.
In Chennai, the price of petrol is ₹104.90 and diesel is ₹95.00 and in Kolkata, the price of petrol is ₹108.53 and diesel is ₹93.57.
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.
