Petrol price at almost ₹101 in Mumbai, as fuel price hike resumes after 2 days
- Petrol and diesel prices were revised on Friday by 27 paise and 28 paise per litre respectively.
- Petrol and diesel prices have been hiked 18 times since May 4 this year.
Petrol and diesel prices have received the second hike this week today as oil companies revised the prices after a gap of two days. The fresh hike has taken petrol price in Mumbai to almost ₹101 per litre. Last weekend, petrol price had hit the three-figure mark in Mumbai for the first time in history.
According to a statement released by the Indian Oil Corporation (IOC), the price of petrol has been increased by 27 paise per litre, while diesel price was raised by 28 paise per litre.
The latest hike is the 18th since price revision resumed after a 18-day hiatus on May 4.
Fro today, petrol in Mumbai will cost ₹100.98 per litre, while diesel will cost ₹92.99 for a litre. The national capital is also not too far behind from a three-figure petrol price. Delhi will have to shell out ₹94.76 per litre for petrol and ₹85.66 per litre for diesel from today. In Chennai, price of a litre of petrol has reached ₹96.92 and ₹90.38 for a litre of diesel. In Kolkata, the prices have been revised to ₹94.76 per litre for petrol and ₹88.51 per litre for diesel.
The recent spate of fuel price hike began a day after assembly elections culminated in five states earlier last month. Since then, petrol price has already crossed the ₹100-mark in several cities in Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra and Rajasthan.
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The month of May has seen one of the steepest hikes in fuel prices across India. In all, the price of petrol and diesel were hiked 16 times in the entire month which led the price of petrol to go up by ₹3.83 per litre, while diesel price saw an overall hike of ₹4.42 per litre.
India has already seen two fuel price hikes within the first four days this month. It is likely that the trend of spiralling fuel price will continue in coming days as well.
The price revisions are decided by the state-owned oil companies like the IOC, Bharat Petroleum (BPL) and Hindustan Petroleum (HPCL) after the government deregulated the pricing of petrol in 2010 and diesel in 2014.. They revisions are usually based on the global crude oil prices and changes in the foreign exchange rates.