To that end, a meeting of top leaders of ruling coalition held on Saturday under the leadership of PM Deuba took the decision. This followed the direction by Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba to readjust price of petroleum products to give a relief to people, he added.
In view of people marred by increasing price of petroleum products fuelled by price hike in the international market, the government has decided to decrease their price in Nepal to some extent in a bid to give some respite to people, said minister Badu. Those found increasing market price in the consumptive goods illegally would be booked, he said, calling for support from the media and consumers to that end. The Minister urged the business community to reduce the price of all consumptive goods in the market to cooperate government in its bid to render relief to the people. Minister Badu expressed his confidence that price control would be tightened through effective market monitoring in coordination with federal, provincial and local governments. The government has decided to make market monitoring effective so as to control price and avoid shortage of daily consumptive goods. However, this is not a permanent solution", "The new measure will moderately render relief to the people. The price was slashed with an intention to render relief to the people even by reducing tax that has been imposed on petro products. The excessive hike in the petro product price hit hard the people's life, he said, adding the decision was taken to slash the price so as to give respite to the commoners. The decision was taken acting on the recommendations", Minister Badu noted.
"This is the decision of today's meeting of the Council of Ministers. The new price decision will come into effect from Saturday midnight. The government has decided to slash the price of petroleum products.Ī cabinet meeting on Saturday decided to reduce Rs 20 per litre in petrol and Rs 29 in diesel, shared Minister for Industry, Commerce and Supplies Dilendra Prasad Badu at a press conference.Īccording to him, with the new decision coming into effect, a litre of petrol will cost RS 179 and diesel Rs 163.