Petrol and diesel prices remained steady on Friday across India as per the notification by fuel companies, continuing the eight-month trend of price stability. Petrol and diesel in the national capital Delhi cost ₹96.72 per litre and ₹89.62 a litre, respectively.
In India’s financial capital Mumbai, petrol costs ₹106.31 per litre while diesel costs ₹94.27 per litre. Petrol is retailing at ₹106.03 while diesel at ₹92.76 in Kolkata. The price of petrol stood at ₹102.63 and that of diesel at ₹94.24 in Chennai.
The last country-wide changed was on May 21, when finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman reduced the excise duty on petrol by ₹8 per litre and diesel by ₹6 per litre.