Kolkata: Diesel prices on Sunday edged closer to the century sign by rising to Rs 99.4 per liter.
However, the price of diesel crossed a sign of a century on the threshold of the city – Rs 100.37 in Krishnanagar, Rs 100.31 on stresses.
On Friday, for the first time, the diesel price passed the RS 100 sign in Bengal because it reached the century run in several gas stations throughout Purulia, sold at Rs 100.14 per liter.
Since all the transportation fleets – goods and passengers – running on diesel, the second cost of being edible and cost for movement will be higher.
Demand for revisions of bus rates is getting stronger on Sundays and so is taxi and ferry rates.
Already the price of each important item both can be eaten, pulses, rice and species reach a high record.
“Never ending the price increase of Diesel has sent our budget Heywire.
We have stopped removing our car.
I went to my work on a scooter.
But the price of gasoline now continues to inch towards RS110, giving me a little Solaca,” said Gopinath Chakraborty, a banker.
Diesel prices pinch a lot for ordinary people traveling with public transportation such as buses and taxis.
“In the absence of government sanctions tariff charts, the bus often demands RS5 more than the long-term tariff .
So the bus only goes from the path that imposes us to choose more expensive modes such as cars and taxis.
So I finally paid almost four times more to travel compared to pre-covid time, “said Jayanta Ghosu, a private insurance company employee, which Suffered last year’s salary deduction.
“At the rate of current increase, Diesel will cross RS100 per liter on Monday or the latest on Tuesday.
Now a bigger question is where it will stop in the end.
Stable increases are quite troublesome and fear.
The government must give us an alternative to Diesel.
Where is CNG? Why isn’t the government a little more proactive to bring diesel to Kolkata faster, “said Anik Ghosh, Transporter.