LPG prices for commercial cylinders hiked by ₹266 from 1 Nov

Nov. 1: Ahead of Diwali, the petroleum companies have hiked the price of commercial Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) cylinders by ₹266 from today onwards. Commercial cylinders of the 19 kg in Delhi will cost ₹2,000.50 from November 1 onwards which was costing ₹1,734 earlier. Whereas in Mumbai, ₹1950 will have to be spent for a commercial gas cylinder of 19 kg. Now a 19 kg gas cylinder in Kolkata has become ₹2073.50, while in Chennai now a 19 kg cylinder will be available for ₹2133. However, there is no increase in rates of domestic LPG cylinders.

Earlier, on October 6, state-owned oil companies had increased the rates of non-subsidised LPG gas cylinders. The prices of domestic LPG cylinders across all categories including subsidised gas were hiked by ₹15 per cylinder last month.  Subsidised and non-subsidised LPG rates were hiked by  ₹25 per cylinder on October 1.