Petrol Diesel Price India: Sudden Hike in Fuel rates in many cities

New Delhi: Big news is coming about petrol and diesel. Diesel prices have increased today after 41 days from the state oil companies. Also, the prices of petrol are also showing an increase after 50 days. On Friday, the price of diesel increased from 22 paise to 25 paise and the price of petrol increased from Rs 17 to 20 paise.

According to information received from IOCL about the rising prices, today the prices of one liter of petrol and diesel in Delhi, Kolkata, Mumbai and Chennai are as follows.

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City- Diesel Petrol Rates

Delhi - Diesel - 70.68, Petrol - 81.23

Kolkata- Diesel - 74.24, Petrol - 82.79

Mumbai- Diesel- 77.11, Petrol - 87.92

Chennai- Diesel- 76.17, Petrol - 84.31

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With this, you can also know the price of petrol and diesel through SMS. In such a situation, according to the website of Indian Oil, you have to write the RSP and your city code and send it to the number 9224992249. The code for each city is different, which you will get from the IOCL website.

New rates come in the morning:

Let us tell you that there is a change in the prices of petrol and diesel at six in the morning. Then the new rates come into effect from six in the morning. After adding excise duty, dealer commission and other things to the price of petrol and diesel, its price almost doubles. Also, the prices of petrol and diesel change daily depending on what the prices of crude are in the international market along with the foreign exchange rates.

According to them, the oil companies do the work of fixing the price of petrol and diesel every day. The dealers are the people running the petrol pumps. At the same time they sell petrol to themselves at retail prices after adding taxes and their own margins to the end consumers. Also, this cost is also added to the price of petrol and diesel.

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