MUMBAI: The price of CNG in Mumbai will be hiked by Rs 1.96/kg to touch Rs51.57, while piped cooking gas rate will go up by Rs2.13/unit from Thursday. The piped gas price will rise from Rs29.40/unit to Rs31.53 for slab 1, and from Rs35/unit to Rs37.13/unit for slab 2 consumers. P 2
This will affect public and private transport, and seven lakh households which have switched from LPG to piped gas.
Nearly 70% BEST buses ply on the green fuel, and the hike will be an extra burden on the undertaking which makes a loss of Rs 1,000 crore annually.
TOI had highlighted recently how nearly 8% of private cars in the region had switched to CNG, which had led to long queues at pumps. MGL statistics showed that more than 5.6 lakh vehicles run on CNG in Mumbai region, which includes 2.57 lakh private cars, 2.38 lakh autos and more than 61,000 cabs.
