Petrol price in Mumbai today will cost Rs105.24 while one litre of diesel will cost ₹96.72.
Petrol price today has breached ₹100-per-litre mark in Chennai for the primary time.
Petrol and diesel price today received yet one more hike, as upwards price revision for both fuel continue in July also after 16 hikes last month. the newest fuel price hike has taken petrol past ₹105-per-litre mark in Mumbai, as Chennai became the newest major city to ascertain the fuel price cross triple figures.
On Friday, petrol got costlier by 35 paise in Delhi, though there was some respite in diesel prices, which remained unchanged. Petrol pirce in Mumbai today will cost ₹105.24 while one litre of diesel will cost ₹96.72. Mumbai saw the worth of petrol breach the Rs-100-per-litre mark for the primary time on May 29.
In Chennai, petrol price has gone up to ₹100.13 after the newest hikes, while diesel is priced at ₹93.72 per litre. Delhi too is now on verge to hitch the Rs-100 club as petrol is inching closer to the three figure mark within the capital . After today’s hike, petrol price in Delhi has reached ₹99.16 per litre and diesel is priced at ₹89.18.
Kolkata too is now verge of joining the Rs-100 club. the worth for a litre of petrol has already reached ₹99.04 per litre within the city. The diesel price remains at ₹92.03 per litre within the capital city of West Benga.
In May this year, Bhopal became the primary capital in India where petrol price crossed the ₹100-mark. Later, state capitals like Jaipur, Mumbai, Hyderabad, Bengaluru, Patna and Thiruvananthapuram also joined the list of places where petrol breached the mark.
Petrol currently costs quite ₹100 per litre in as many as 12 states and Union Territories. These include states like Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh , Telangana, Karnataka, Jammu and Kashmir, Odisha, Ladakh, Bihar, Kerala and Tamil Nadu . Diesel price too has breached the ₹100-per-litre mark in Rajasthan and Odisha.
In June, India saw as many as 16 fuel price hikes. June alone saw petrol and diesel price rise by quite ₹4 per litre. The spate of price rise began on May 4 after the oil companies began revising fuel prices upwards after a hiatus of quite two months thanks to assembly elections in five states.
