New Delhi: The new year has not disturbed the mood of fuel consumers as petrol and diesel prices have not burnt a hole in people's pocket even though the global oil prices have firmed up.
On Tuesday, the oil marketing companies kept the pump prices of petrol and diesel unchanged, maintaining the trend started in the second week of December.
Accordingly, the pump price of petrol remained at Rs 83.71 a litre and diesel Rs 73.87 a litre in Delhi on Tuesday. Across the country as well the price of the two petroleum products remained unchanged.
The price of petrol in Mumbai remains at Rs 90.34 and diesel Rs 80.51, the two fuels remains at Rs 86.51 and Rs 79.31 a litre respectively in Chennai. The retail price of petrol remains at Rs 85.19 and Rs 77.44 a litre in Kolkata.
OMCs have gone on a pause mode at a time when news of successful coronavirus and expectations of big pick up in demand had kept crude on the boil with prices breaching $50 a barrel mark.