The price of cooking gas was hiked by Rs 50 per cylinder on Wednesday, the eighth increase in rates in the last one year that took the cumulative rise to Rs 244 per cylinder or 30 per cent. Non-subsidised LPG now costs Rs 1,053 per 14.2-kg cylinder in the national capital, up from Rs 1,003 previously, according to a price notification of state-owned fuel retailers.
In Calcutta, the price of Indane gas has been raised to Rs 1,079 from Rs 1,029. Common households pay non-subsidised rates for the cooking gas they buy after the government restricted subsidy to just poor beneficiaries who got connections under the Ujjwala scheme.
This is the fourth increase in the LPG rate since the Ukraine war. The price was hiked by Rs 50 per cylinder on March 22 and again on May 7.
