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Petrol and diesel costs regular for twelfth consecutive day: Here’s what it prices in your metropolis

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Petrol and diesel costs have been unchanged for the twelfth straight day at their file highs throughout the nation on Thursday, March 11, 2021. There has not been any revision in auto gas costs up to now in March and costs have been final modified on February 27, 2021, with petrol being hiked by 24 paise per litre and diesel being raised by 15 paise within the nationwide capital.
Petrol worth in Delhi stands at Rs 91.17 per litre whereas diesel is obtainable for Rs 81.47. In Mumbai, petrol is retailing at Rs 97.57, whereas diesel prices Rs 88.60, information obtainable on Indian Oil Corporation’s web site confirmed.
The worth of petrol had final month breached the Rs 100-mark in two locations in Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh, which levy the best VAT on the gas within the nation. In these two cities, the important thing auto gas remained regular at Rs 101.84 in Rajasthan’s Sri Ganganagar, whereas diesel was obtainable at Rs 93.77 per litre. In Madhya Pradesh’s Anuppur, petrol prices Rs 101.59 per litre and diesel is promoting for Rs 91.97.

During the primary two months of this yr, petrol worth has gone up by Rs 4.87 per litre whereas diesel charges have elevated by Rs 4.99 throughout this era.
Fuel costs differ from state to state as taxes get levied on them by each central in addition to state governments together with the freight prices. The central and state taxes make up for 60 per cent of the retail promoting worth of petrol and over 54 per cent of diesel.
Centre levies Rs 32.90 per litre of excise responsibility on petrol and Rs 31.80 a litre on diesel.
Generally, the gas costs get revised each day in step with benchmark worldwide worth and international change charges.
In the worldwide market, crude oil costs rose on Thursday as vaccine rollouts bolstered the financial outlook and US gas shares fell sharply, though positive factors have been capped by a surge in crude oil inventories after final month’s Texas storm, Reuters reported earlier within the day.
Brent crude oil futures for May rose 40 cents (0.6 per cent) to $68.30 a barrel by 0105 GMT, whereas US West Texas Intermediate crude for April was up 48 cents (0.7 per cent) at $64.92, the report mentioned.
Here’s what you pay for a litre of petrol and diesel in your metropolis on Thursday, March 11, 2021:
City
Petrol (Rs/litre)
Diesel (Rs/litre)
Sri Ganganagar
101.84
93.77
Anuppur
101.59
91.97
New Delhi
91.17
81.47
Mumbai
97.57
88.60
Kolkata
91.35
84.35
Chennai
93.11
86.45
Bengaluru
94.22
86.37
Hyderabad
94.79
88.86
Patna
93.48
86.73
Jaipur
97.72
89.98
Lucknow
89.31
81.85
Thiruvananthapuram
93.05
87.53
Source: Indian Oil Corporation