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Relief for customers, LPG cylinder price cut by ₹35
According to the Indian Oil Corporation’s revised rates, effective from April 1, a 14.2 kg non-subsidised cooking gas cylinder now costs ₹653.50 in Delhi as compared to ₹689.
Prices of non-subsidised LPG, or cooking gas, have been reduced by ₹35.50 per cylinder, and that of the subsidised one by a marginal ₹1.74, according to state-run oil marketing companies, even as public sector Indraprastha Gas Ltd increased the rates for piped and compressed natural gas (CNG) supply to cities in the national capital region.
According to the revised rates announced by Indian Oil Corp that are effective from April 1, a 14.2 kg non-subsidised cooking gas cylinder now costs ₹653.50 in Delhi, as compared to ₹689.
Similarly, the non-subsidised LPG cylinder now costs ₹676 in Kolkata, ₹625 in Mumbai and 663.50 in Chennai.
The price of the subsidised cylinder, which a consumer has a quota of 12 per year, was also cut marginally by ₹1.74. The 14.2 kg cylinder now costs ₹491.35 in Delhi as against ₹493 earlier.
OMCs revise LPG and aviation turbine fuel (ATF), or jet fuel, prices on the first of every month.
Jet fuel prices have been cut by ₹231 in Delhi and now sells at ₹61,450 per kilolitre. Prices vary with airports depending on local taxes.
Jet fuel per kilolitre now costs ₹65,985 in Kolkata, ₹61,025 in Mumbai and ₹61,615 in Chennai.
Meanwhile, Indraprastha Gas Ltd (IGL) raised the price of CNG by 90 paise per kg and of domestic piped gas by ₹1.15 per standard cubic metres (SCM) in Delhi, effective Monday, following the change in the rate of domestic natural gas prices payable to producers.
As part of the six-monthly official revision of rates, the domestic natural gas price has gone from April 1 up 6 per cent to $3.06 per million British thermal unit (mbtu).
IGL has also raised the price of CNG by Re 1 per kg in Noida, Greater Noida and Ghaziabad.
Prices of piped natural gas (PNG) to households in Noida, Greater Noida and Ghaziabad have been raised by ₹1.20 per SCM.
