Petrol, Diesel Prices: Key Things To Know About Fuel Rates Today

12 Aug 2018, 09:10 AM IST

Petrol, diesel prices: Petrol price had touched an all-time high of Rs 78.43 a litre on May 29.

Diesel prices are raised today for a third straight day. Diesel can be purchased today at Rs. 68.77 per litre in Delhi. Diesel is being sold at Rs. 73.01 per litre in Mumbai, Rs. 71.61 per litre in Kolkata and Rs. 72.64 per litre in Chennai.
The revised fuel rates are applicable from 6 am on August 12, 2018. State-run oil marketing companies Indian Oil, Bharat Petroleum and Hindustan Petroleum revise fuel prices with effect from 6 am on a daily basis.
Retail selling prices have been firming up since July 30 as international rates inched up.
Petrol price had touched an all-time high of Rs 78.43 a litre on May 29 and had since receded. On that day, the diesel price had touched an all-time high of Rs 69.30.
State-owned oil firms had in mid-June last year dumped 15-year practice of revising rates on 1st and 16th of every month in favour of daily price revisions.
High prices have off-and-on triggered demands for a reduction in excise duty but the government had ruled out any immediate cut.
Mumbai has the highest VAT of 39.12 per cent on petrol, while Telangana levies the highest VAT of 26 per cent on diesel. Delhi charges a VAT of 27 per cent on petrol and 17.24 per cent on diesel.
The central government had raised excise duty on petrol by Rs 11.77 a litre and that on diesel by 13.47 a litre in nine installments between November 2014 and January 2016 to shore up finances as global oil prices fell, but then cut the tax just once in October last year by Rs 2 a litre. (With PTI inputs)