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No immediate plan to free diesel prices: Govt

06 Dec 2011 Evaluate

The government has indicated that it has no plans to deregulate diesel prices. The Minister of State for Petroleum and Natural Gas R P N Singh, 'There is no immediate plan to decontrol diesel or LPG as they have cascading effect (on general prices).'

In June 2010, government has deregulated petrol prices however it has maintained control over the retail prices of diesel, domestic cooking gas (LPG) and kerosene sold via Public Distribution System (PDS). 

The government owned oil marketing companies (OMCs) are losing around Rs 13.53 per litre on sell of diesel, Rs 29.99 per litre on sell of kerosene and Rs 287 per 14.2 kg cylinder of LPG cylinder. Their losses are totaling upto Rs 425 crore on daily basis on the sale of diesel, domestic cooking gas and kerosene at government controlled prices which are below cost. With this speed all the three OMCs i.e. Indian Oil Corp, Bharat Petroleum Corp and Hindustan Petroleum Corp are projected to make revenue loss of Rs 137,605 crore in 2011-12.

'There is no meeting scheduled (of the Empowered Group of Ministers) to decide on (raising) diesel or LPG prices,' R P N Singh said. The EGoM headed by the Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee is authorized to take decision on prices of the three sensitive products.

However, R P N Singh said consumers should get used to changes in prices of petrol every fortnight -- moving up if international rates rise or reducing if prices come down. In last month, OMCs has done three price revisions in petrol, first hike rates by Rs 1.80 per litre on November 3, then on November 15 they reduce it by Rs 2.22 litre and on November 30, they further reduce the petrol prices by 0.78 litre.

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