NEW DELHI : State-run fuel retailers today left the price of petrol and diesel unchanged for 20 days in a row. Fuel rates, however, saw a spike of Re 1- \u20b91.5 in Mumbai, Bengaluru and Kolkata as a result of a hike in VAT by the respective state governments. The basic selling price remains unchanged. Petrol and diesel rates were last revised on March 16.<\/p>\n
In Delhi, a litre of petrol is priced at \u20b969.59 per litre and diesel at \u20b962.29 per litre today. In Mumbai, petrol is selling at \u20b976.31 per litre and diesel at \u20b966.21 per litre. In Chennai, a litre of petrol will cost \u20b972.28 per litre whereas diesel is now priced at \u20b965.71 per litre. In Bengaluru, petrol is now selling at \u20b973.55 and diesel at \u20b965.96. In Hyderabad, petrol pumps are charging \u20b973.97 for petrol and \u20b967.82 for diesel. If you are in Gurgaon, you will have to shell out \u20b970.21 for petrol and \u20b962.08 for diesel. In Kolkata, petrol pumps are charging \u20b973.30 for petrol and \u20b965.62 for diesel.<\/p>\n
Amid a 21-day nationwide lockdown, petrol sales fell by 17% and that of diesel by 26% in March, according to a report by Reuters. Petrol sales in March were about 1.94 million tonnes, while diesel sales reduced to 4.98 million tonnes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
NEW DELHI : State-run fuel retailers today left the price of petrol and diesel unchanged for 20 days in a row. Fuel rates, however, saw a spike of Re 1- \u20b91.5 in Mumbai, Bengaluru and Kolkata as a result of a hike in VAT by the respective state governments. The basic selling price remains unchanged. Petrol and diesel rates were last revised on March 16. In Delhi, a litre of petrol is priced at \u20b969.59 per litre and diesel at \u20b962.29 per litre today. In Mumbai, petrol is selling at \u20b976.31 per litre and diesel at \u20b966.21 per litre. In […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[188,139,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-345405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-live-mint","category-live-mint","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=345405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345405\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=345405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=345405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=345405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}