New Delhi: Retail gasoline costs throughout the 4 metro cities remained unchanged for the fourth consecutive day on Monday.Accordingly, within the nationwide capital, petrol was bought on the document excessive of Rs 84.20 per litre, reached on Thursday (January 7).
In Mumbai, Chennai and Kolkata, the gasoline was priced at Rs 90.83, Rs 86.96 and Rs 85.68 per litre, respectively.
Petrol and diesel costs had elevated on two successive days final Wednesday and Thursday taking gasoline to document excessive ranges in Delhi whereas preserving its costs very near document excessive ranges in different metro cities.
The rise got here amid rising crude oil costs. At present, Brent crude worth is excessive close to the $56-per-barrel mark.
Diesel worth was additionally the identical for the fourth consecutive day throughout the metros. In Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai and Kolkata, diesel was priced at Rs 74.38, Rs 81.07, 79.72 and Rs 77.97, all unchanged ranges since Thursday.
At Rs 84.20 a litre in Delhi, petrol worth has breached the very best degree within the nationwide capital after October 4, 2018, when the speed rose to Rs 84 a litre.
The OMCs’ endurance of holding again gasoline costs was damaged on Wednesday once they elevated the retail worth of petrol and diesel for the primary time this yr after over a month-long pause.
Petrol worth was very near breaching the all-time excessive degree of Rs 84 a litre (reached on October 4, 2018) when it touched Rs 83.71 a litre on December 7, 2020. However the march had been halted ever since then with no worth revision by the OMCs.
–IANS
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