New Delhi (02/04/2022): Ever since the elections got over in the five states, fuel prices hav e continued to maintain an upward trend with petrol and diesel rates hiked by another 80 paise per litre each on Saturday, with a total increase of about Rs 7.20 a litre in ten revisions in 12 days so far.
In Delhi the petrol price is now 102.61 per litre while diesel is selling at Rs 93.87 per litre. In Mumbai, the petrol and diesel prices have gone up by 85 paise, to Rs 117.57 and Rs 101.79 per litre respectively.
There had been a pause in the revision of fuel prices since November 4 last year, which was broken on March 22.
On November 3 last year the Centre had cut excise duty by Rs 5 per litre on petrol and Rs 10 per litre on diesel to bring down the retail prices across the country.
