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Aviation turbine fuel (ATF) prices were today cut by 3.7 per cent, while subsidised LPG rate was hiked by Rs 2.07 per cylinder, the seventh increase in cooking gas price in six months.
ATF or jet fuel prices were cut by Rs 1,881 per kilolitre (kl), or 3.7 per cent, to Rs 48,379.63 per kl in Delhi. The reduction comes after two rounds of hikes, the last one being on November 1 by a steep 7.3 per cent.
Simultaneously, subsidised LPG rates were hiked and it will now cost Rs 432.71 per 14.2-kg cylinder as against Rs 430.64 previously.
This is the seventh increase in price since July when the government had decided to go in for small hikes of up to Rs 2 per bottle every month to cut down its subsidy outgo.
LPG rates were last hiked on November 1 by Rs 2.05 per cylinder. Prior to that, the rate was hiked on October 28 by Rs 1.5 per cylinder on account of hike in commission paid to dealers.
Rates went up by Rs 2.03 per cylinder to Rs 427.09 on October 1.
The government had earlier this month decided to take the diesel route for eliminating subsidies on LPG and kerosene.
Diesel prices were deregulated in November 2014 after the previous UPA government effected 50 paise hikes every month to eliminate subsidies.
The near Rs 2 per cylinder hike in LPG every month is also aimed at achieving the same purpose. In the case of kerosene, the government has allowed state-owned oil companies to raise prices by 25 paise a litre every fortnight for 10 months.
The 9th hike in kerosene, since July, was effected today.
A litre of kerosene now costs Rs 17.51 in Mumbai. Delhi has been declared a kerosene-free state and no subsidised PDS kerosene is sold in the national capital.
Prices of non-subsidised cooking gas (LPG), which consumers buy after exhausting the quota of 12 bottles of 14.2-kg each per household in a year, was hiked by Rs 54.5 to Rs 584.
The hike comes on the back of Rs 37.5 hike on November 1.
Oil firms revise the rates of ATF and cooking gas on 1st of every month based on oil price and foreign exchange rate in the preceding month.
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