All the 400 petrol pumps will remain shut from 6 am today (October 22) to 5 am tomorrow (October 23).The Delhi Petrol Dealers Association had announced this strike on October 15.
NEW DELHI: Diesel is costing more than petrol in Odisha. Conventionally, the diesel costs less in comparison to petrol due to lower taxes.
A litre of diesel cost 12 paise more than that of petrol in Bhubaneswar on Sunday with diesel being sold at Rs 80.69 per litre while petrol cost 80.57 per litre.
A surge in demand for global crude oil has led to fuel prices skyrocketing in India.Usually, the retail prices of diesel are lower than that of petrol due to lower taxes, dealer commissions and base price.
Oil Minister Dharmendra Pradhan, who is from Odisha, Sunday again asked the state government to reduce the rate of VAT to give relief to people.
The situation triggered a political slugfest as the opposition parties started blaming the faulty policies of the central government.
However, in the past few months, the diesel base price which is the price charged from dealers by oil companies without tax has increased by Rs 5 because of the growing demand for fuel.
All the 400 petrol pumps in the national capital Delhi will remain shut today in protest against Delhi government’s refusal to reduce Value Added Tax (VAT) on diesel & petrol in the national capital.
Auto-rickshaw and taxi unions have decided to go on a strike today against the Delhi government’s policies on cab aggregators.
Gujarat, Rajasthan, Maharashtra, Uttar Pradesh, Haryana announced a cut in fuel prices but the Delhi government had not cut state VAT on fuel.
