Indian Oil Corporation (IOC) has decided to increase the retail selling price of diesel (retail) by Rs.0.50 a litre (excluding state levies) w.e.f midnight of Jan. 31/Feb. 1, 2014.
The above increase is pursuant to GOI order dated Jan. 17th Jan'13, whereby OMCs have been authorized to increase the retail selling price of diesel within a small range every month until further orders.
Accordingly, since then, retail diesel prices are being revised every month. In continuation of above, Indian Oil Corporation has decided to effect the aforesaid increase in retail diesel prices. Even after the current increase, under recovery on retail diesel shall stand at Rs 7.40 a litre.
The corporation is also suffering under-recoveries on sale of SKO (PDS) of Rs 35.76/litre & LPG (Dom) of Rs 656/cyl.
For the year 2013-14, the Corporation is expected to incur under-recovery of around Rs 737 billion on sale of three sensitive products (Industry around Rs 1,420 billion).