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New Delhi: The price of LPG cylinders has been increased by Rs50 per 14.2kg cylinder for both subsidised and non-subsidised consumers with effect from April 8, Petroleum and Natural Gas Minister Hardeep Singh Puri announced on Monday. The price increase applies to both Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana (PMUY) beneficiaries as well as other consumers.
“For PMUY beneficiaries, the price will rise from Rs500 to Rs550 per cylinder. For other consumers, it will increase from Rs803 to Rs853,” the minister said. He added that the revision is subject to the periodic review that takes place every two to three weeks.
On April 1, in a relief to people in the new financial year, oil marketing companies had reduced the price of commercial LPG cylinders. The price of a 19-kg commercial LPG cylinder was cut by Rs 41. In the national capital, Delhi, the revised retail selling price now stands at Rs 1,762 per cylinder.
India imports about 60 per cent of the domestic LPG consumed. Price of LPG in the country is linked to its price in the international market. The number of beneficiaries getting subsidised LPG under the Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana (PMUY) has gone up to 10.
33 crore as on March 1 this year while the total number active domestic LPG consumers in India stands at 32.94 crore, according to information tabled in Parliament in the recently-concluded session. While the average international price of LPG rose by 63 per cent from US$ 385/MT in July 2023 to US$ 629/MT in February 2025, the effective price for PMUY consumers for domestic LPG was reduced by 44 per cent from Rs 903 in August 2023 to Rs 503 in February 2025, Minister of State for Petroleum and Natural Gas Suresh Gopi told the Lok Sabha in a written reply.
The retail selling price of a 14.2 kg domestic LPG cylinder was, until now, Rs 803 in Delhi, while there was a subsidy of Rs 300 per cylinder to PMUY consumers. The price of 14.
2-kg domestic LPG cylinders had remained unchanged since August 2024. Excise duties The minister said the imposition of additional excise duties on petrol and diesel is intended to compensate the oil marketing companies for losses they have incurred earlier. “The two rupee excise duty has been imposed by the finance ministry.
It will not be passed on to the consumer. It will come into the general kitty, and it will be utilized for reimbursing the LPG losses of the same (oil marketing) company,” the minister added. According to a notification from the Department of Revenue, the central government has raised the excise duties on diesel and petrol by Rs 2 per litre, effective Tuesday.
Currently, the government charges excise duty of Rs19.90 per litre on petrol. From Tuesday, it is going to be increased to Rs21.
90 a litre. Similarly, the current excise duty on diesel is Rs 15.80 per litre, and it will increase to Rs 17.
80 per litre effective Tuesday. Oil marketing companies have informed the Petroleum Ministry that retail prices of petrol and diesel will remain the same. Crude prices have softened over the past from over USD 70 per barrel to USD 63 per barrel on Monday, raising margins for the oil marketing companies (OMCs).
This substantial decline in oil prices may have prompted the government to hike the excise duties on petrol and diesel..
