KOLKATA: Petrol price breached the Rs 80 mark in Kolkata on Thursday, marking a four-year high, 4 days after the price of diesel climbed to an remarkable Rs 70 a litre in the city. More than 90% of the town’s vehicles, including both private and non-private transport in addition to goods-carrying vehicles, run on those two fuels.
A litre of petrol offered at Rs 80.12 in Kolkata on Thursday and diesel offered at Rs 71.08 a litre. Diesel, alternatively, has turn out to be more expensive quicker than petrol, which has decreased the space between petrol and diesel prices to about Rs nine, an odd prevalence if one analyses the price distinction in the ultimate one-and-a-half decades.
The simultaneous skyrocketing of the 2 most-used fuels in the city implies that relatives budgets would possibly get squeezed on multiple fronts: gas expenses for households that personal small cars have already reached levels ultimate seen in 2014; and there has been increasing clamour from public transport operators, difficult a hike in bus and cab fares.
Truckers company on June 18 strike name
Cabbies, truckers and petroleum sellers have stuck to their choice of participating in the June 18 strike. About 40% of buses have already long past off highway. “We gave the federal government an ultimatum to revise the fare within May 25. But no motion has been taken to this point. The extra-ordinary spike in diesel prices has put the non-public bus industry in coma. We aren't going to call a strike but buses will routinely move off the road,” Joint Council of Bus Syndicates’ Tapan Bandyopadhyay said.
The ultimate time Kolkata saw petrol prices move up past the Rs-80 mark was once in 2014. The price of the gas utilized in maximum family-owned cars breached the Rs-80 barrier on January five, 2014, and stayed above this mark till April 2014. The petrol price rose again in July 2014, attaining Rs 81.43 a litre, sooner than it began sliding in August. The perfect price petrol recorded in fresh historical past was once in 2013, when a litre price Rs 83.63 on September 14.
A litre of petrol offered at Rs 80.12 in Kolkata on Thursday and diesel offered at Rs 71.08 a litre. Diesel, alternatively, has turn out to be more expensive quicker than petrol, which has decreased the space between petrol and diesel prices to about Rs nine, an odd prevalence if one analyses the price distinction in the ultimate one-and-a-half decades.
The simultaneous skyrocketing of the 2 most-used fuels in the city implies that relatives budgets would possibly get squeezed on multiple fronts: gas expenses for households that personal small cars have already reached levels ultimate seen in 2014; and there has been increasing clamour from public transport operators, difficult a hike in bus and cab fares.
Truckers company on June 18 strike name
Cabbies, truckers and petroleum sellers have stuck to their choice of participating in the June 18 strike. About 40% of buses have already long past off highway. “We gave the federal government an ultimatum to revise the fare within May 25. But no motion has been taken to this point. The extra-ordinary spike in diesel prices has put the non-public bus industry in coma. We aren't going to call a strike but buses will routinely move off the road,” Joint Council of Bus Syndicates’ Tapan Bandyopadhyay said.
The ultimate time Kolkata saw petrol prices move up past the Rs-80 mark was once in 2014. The price of the gas utilized in maximum family-owned cars breached the Rs-80 barrier on January five, 2014, and stayed above this mark till April 2014. The petrol price rose again in July 2014, attaining Rs 81.43 a litre, sooner than it began sliding in August. The perfect price petrol recorded in fresh historical past was once in 2013, when a litre price Rs 83.63 on September 14.
Petrol breaches Rs 80 mark, on a 4-year high in Kol
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