NEW DELHI: Keeping up its accelerating trend, fuel prices increased again on Friday just after a day of break with state-owned fuel retailers hiking rates of petrol and diesel by 29 paise and 34 paise per litre respectively in the national capital.
Across the country as well the petrol and diesel prices increased on Friday but its quantum varied depending on the level of local levies in respective states.
Accordingly, In Delhi, petrol now costs Rs 92.34 per litre and diesel is priced at Rs 82.95 per litre up from yesterday's level of Rs 92.05 and Rs 82.61 a litre respectively in the national capital.
In Mumbai, petrol now comes for around Rs 98.65 a litre and diesel for Rs 90.11 a litre according to a price notification from oil marketing companies Petrol prices in some states including Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and in some places in Maharastra have breached the Rs 100 per litre mark while premium petrol has been hovering above that level for some time now.
Fuel prices have now increased on four of the last five days rising continuously from Monday to Wednesday, pausing on Thursday and again rising on Friday. Prior to holding back auto fuel prices on Saturday and Sunday, its pump rates had also increased sharply on the previous four days as well.
The oil companies had already increased the ATF prices by 6.7 per cent effective this month. With global crude prices at around $ 69 a barrel mark, OMCs may have revise fuel prices upwards again if there is any further firming up.
OMCs benchmark retail fuel prices to a 15-day rolling average of global refined products' prices and dollar exchange rate.
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