The Government is understood to have put on hold the increase in non-subsidised domestic LPG prices effected by public sector oil marketing companies from Thursday.
Facing stiff opposition, the government tonight stayed the decision on LPG price increase that consumers buy beyond their quota of six subsidised bottles.
“The price hike has been put on hold,” a top oil company official said declining to give a reason for the same.
The latest increase in non-subsidised cooking gas has been reversed and it will be available at old rates.
The official said there is no change in the decision to hike price of commercial LPG cylinders.
Earlier in the day, the price of LPG cylinders, which consumers buy beyond the cheaper quota of six bottles, was hiked by Rs 26.50 to Rs 922 per unit on firming international rates.
The government had in September restricted the supply of subsidised domestic LPG cylinders to six per household in a year. The State-owned oil firms revise rates of non-subsidised LPG on first of every month based on the average imported cost and rupee-US dollar rate during the previous month.