OGRA notifies increase in LPG price for October

KARACHI: Another bad news for the people as the Oil and Gas Regulatory Authority (OGRS) has jacked up LPG prices after petrol, ARY News reported on Friday. 

OGRA has increased the price of LPG for October, for which a formal notification has been issued. The price of LPG has been increased by Rs 29.10 per kg.

An 11.8 kg domestic cylinder of LPG has gone up by Rs 343.38. After the increase, the new prices have been enforced from October 1 (today).

The new price of a domestic cylinder has been fixed at Rs 2,403.55. In September, the domestic price of LPG cylinder was Rs Rs2,020.

Earlier, the federal government on Thursday increased the price of petrol by Rs4 per litre for the first fortnight of October, effective from Friday (today), according to a notification issued by the Finance Ministry.

The government approved Rs4 per litre increase on petrol and Rs2 per litre in the price of diesel.

The price of kerosene oil went up by Rs7.05 while the rate of light diesel was jacked up to Rs8.82 per litre.