‘Petrol prices in India up by 5 per cent as against over 50 per cent in some countries’
NEW DELHI: Petrol prices in India have gone up by merely 5% as against over 50% in some of the developed countries, said the petroleum Minister Hardeep Singh Puri on Tuesday in Lok Sabha.
The minister also mentioned that the ongoing war between Russia and Ukraine has affected not only India but all over the world. “The increase in prices of petrol was very low in India as compared to developed and other developing nations in the aftermath of the war. Petrol prices have gone up by over 50% in countries like the US, the UK, Canada, Germany, and Sri Lanka. In the case of India the increase worked out to be only 5% ,” said Puri.
