NEW DELHI: Fuel prices have gone up the least in India as compared to Western economies amid flaring global oil prices, petroleum minister Hardeep Singh Puri said on Tuesday, the day state-run fuel retailers raised pump prices for the 13th time in 15 days since they began revising rates after a gap of nearly five months.
“We have raised the price of petrol by Rs 9 (per litre) over 12 or 13 days, whereas the international (oil) price has shot up… Our percentage increase is one-tenth of what it is elsewhere,” Puri said during a discussion on the Russia-Ukraine conflict and evacuation of Indians studying in Ukraine.