In a written reply to a question in the Rajya Sabha, Pradhan said domestic subsidised LPG in Delhi was priced at Rs 538.95 per cylinder on October 1, 2019, and this month it costs Rs 574.50.
In a novel protest against the "steep" hike in the LPG cylinder prices, the Congress women workers on Friday descended upon the city's busy market area with various utensils and cooked food on earthen ovens using dung cakes and fire woods.
The oil ministry on Thursday justified the steep Rs 144.50 per cylinder hike in cooking gas LPG prices, saying the rates are based on the international market price that had increased over 26 per cent last month. It also said domestic consumers have been largely insulated from the hike by way of the large increase in subsidy.
The Congress on Thursday demanded that the government should rollback the LPG cylinder price hike and wondered if the increase in prices of cooking gas was "revenge" for the saffron party's crushing defeat in the Delhi polls.
LPG cylinder price hiked: LPG cylinder prices sharply hiked and the new rates would be applicable from today. State-run oil marketing companies today hiked the price of non-subsidised liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) cylinders across metro cities.
Petroleum companies have made a marginal increase of Rs 5 in non-subsidized gas cylinders
This subsidy amount varies from month to month depending on the changes in the average international benchmark LPG rate and foreign exchange rate.
The government had previously ordered public sector oil marketing companies to raise domestic cooking gas (LPG) prices by Rs 4 per cylinder every month beginning June 2016 with a view to eliminating subsidies.
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