New Delhi, April 8 -- The government on Monday hiked the cooking gas price by Rs 50 per cylinder and raised excise duty on petrol and diesel by Rs 2 per litre each, but without changing retail prices.
The increase in cooking gas price will be for the Ujjawala - poor beneficiaries who got LPG connection free of cost - and the general users, and will be effective from April 8, Petroleum and Natural Gas Minister Hardeep Singh Puri said.
Cooking gas for Ujjawala users will cost Rs 553 per 14.2-kg cylinder from the current Rs 503 in the national capital. The same for general users will now cost Rs 853.
The rates, which vary from state to state depending on local incidence of taxes, were last revised in March last year when they were cut by Rs...