The price of domestic cooking gas — or what most of us simply call the LPG cylinder — is going up by ₹50 starting 8 April 2025. This was confirmed by union oil minister Hardeep Singh Puri during a press briefing on 7 April.
So, here’s what’s changing: for regular users, the price of a 14.2-kg LPG cylinder will go up from ₹803 to ₹853. For those under the Ujjwala scheme — which provides subsidised gas connections to lower-income households — the price will rise from ₹503 to ₹553.
Prices of LPG cylinders are not uniform across the country, as they depend on local taxes. The last time domestic gas prices were revised was back on 1 March 2024, making this the first hike in over a year.
On the flip side, there’s some breathing space for commercial users. Oil marketing companies (OMCs) have slashed the price of the 19-kg commercial LPG cylinder by ₹41, effective from 1 April 2025. In Delhi, the new price of the commercial cylinder is ₹1,762.
While the commercial LPG price cut might offer some relief to restaurants and businesses, households will now have to shell out more for their monthly cooking fuel.
According to the minister, the international price of LPG has been on the rise — jumping from $415 per metric tonne to $712. Despite this spike, the government claims it did not pass on the burden to consumers earlier. Puri stated that oil marketing companies have been absorbing the difference, leading to significant under-recoveries.
Just how much? As per the minister, state-run OMCs reportedly suffered losses of around ₹41,338 crore on LPG alone in the last financial year.
The current ₹50 hike, according to Puri, is meant to tackle the present under-recovery. The backlog, however, might require a separate intervention from the Finance Ministry, which is yet to be worked out.
That’s not all — the government has also revised the excise duty on petrol and diesel, increasing it by ₹2 per litre each. But there’s a catch: Puri said this hike in excise is not meant to impact consumers directly. Instead, it is apparently aimed at helping OMCs recover a chunk of their earlier losses — estimated at ₹43,000 crore — from the LPG side of the business.
In simple terms, if you use domestic LPG cylinders for cooking, be ready to pay ₹50 more from 8 April onwards. If you're a commercial user — like a caterer or run a small hotel — your gas costs might come down a bit. Meanwhile, fuel prices at the pump may or may not change depending on how OMCs absorb or adjust the new excise duty.
With international energy prices constantly shifting and oil companies trying to recover past losses, it’s quite likely that we’ll continue seeing such changes in gas and fuel prices in the months ahead.
