Kathmandu, March 31 -- The Nepal Oil Corporation has increased the price of petrol with effect from Sunday midnight.

The state-owned monopoly hiked the price of petrol by Rs4 per litre.

Consumers will now have to pay Rs175 per litre for petrol in Kathmandu, Pokhara and Dipayal.

They have to pay Rs174 for a litre of petrol in Surkhet and Dang and it will cost Rs172.50 in Charaali, Biratnagar, Janakpur, Amlekhgunj, Bhalwari, Nepalgunj, Dhangadhi and Birgunj.

The prices of diesel, kerosene, cooking gas cylinder and aviation turbine fuel have been kept unchanged.

In Nepal, under the automatic fuel price mechanism, the corporation sets prices based on the tariff it receives from its sole supplier, the Indian Oil Corporation.

NOC announce...