Petrol-Diesel / What is the cost of petrol and diesel in metros after hike on 6th straight day?

New Delhi: Petrol and diesel prices were hiked for the sixth consecutive day today after a two-day pause across the country Monday. The latest increase that follows the unrelenting hike in international oil prices has pushed pump rates across the country to their highest-ever levels.

Petrol and diesel prices were again hiked by 35 paise per litre each, according to a price notification of state-owned fuel retailers.

Petrol now costs  ₹109.69 a litre in Delhi and  ₹115.50 in Mumbai. Diesel is now priced at  ₹98.42 a litre in Delhi and  ₹106.62 in Mumbai.

As for Kolkata and Chennai, petrol and diesel cost  ₹110.15 and  ₹101.56 and  ₹106.35 and  ₹102.59 respectively in Chennai.

In Bengaluru, petrol is available at  ₹113.56 per litre and diesel at  ₹104.50 and in Hyderabad, one litre of petrol is now available at  ₹114.12 and diesel cost  ₹107.40 for one litre of diesel.

Prices differ from state to state, depending on the incidence of local taxes and cost of transportation.

The twin factors led to petrol price crossing ₹120 a litre mark in places such as Panna, Satna, Rewa, Shahdol, Chhindwara and Balaghat in Madhya Pradesh.

The same level has also been crossed in two border towns of Rajasthan - Ganganagar and Hanumangarh.

The costliest fuel was in the border town of Ganganagar in Rajasthan, where petrol comes for  ₹122.32 a litre and diesel for  ₹113.21 per litre.

Petrol price has been hiked on 26 occasions since September 28, when a three-week-long hiatus in rate revision ended. In all, prices have gone up by ₹8.15 a litre.

Diesel rates have been increased by ₹9.45 per litre in 29 hikes since September 24.

Prior to that, the petrol price was increased by ₹11.44 a litre between May 4 and July 17. The diesel rate had gone up by ₹9.14 per litre during this period.