The cost of petrol and diesel in India remained stagnant on Monday, continuing a ten-month trend of price stability. Prices were last revised in May 2022 after the Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman announced to slash the excise duty on petrol and diesel by ₹8 per litre and ₹6 per litre, respectively.
Previously, fuel prices used to be revised every 15 days. In 2014, the government deregulated the prices and from 2017, the cost of fuel is updated every day. The government controls the fuel prices through excise duty, base prices and cap prices at which dealers and OMCs deal with each other.
