For the second time in row, PSU oil marketing companies (OMCs) have slashed price of petrol and diesel by 50 paise per litre and 46 paise per litre respectively. The new rates announced by the oil marketing companies (OMCs) are effective from December 15, 2015. Following the change, petrol will cost Rs 59.98 per litre in Delhi as against Rs 60.48 per litre, while diesel will cost Rs 46.09 as compared to Rs 46.55 now. At the last revision on December 01, OMCs had slashed price of petrol and diesel by 58 paise per litre and 25 paise per litre respectively.
The net impact of the crude oil prices and Rupee depreciation have warranted a reduction of at least Rs 2 per litre but the reduction is much lower than an anticipated decrease as oil companies left cushion for the government to mop up gains accruing from global oil prices dipping to multi-year lows and also the government may like to raise excise duty on the two fuels to mop up its revenues as it has done five times in last one year.
PSU oil marketing companies Indian Oil Corporation, Bharat Petroleum Corp and Hindustan Petroleum Corp revise petrol and diesel prices on 1st and 16th of every month based on average imported cost and rupee-dollar exchange rates in the previous fortnight. The oil companies have said that the movement of prices in the international oil market and INR-USD exchange rate shall continue to be monitored closely and developing trends of the market will be reflected in future price changes.
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