Mumbai CNG price will rise to Rs 90 per kg from November 1 after Mahanagar Gas Limited increased the rate by Re 1 per kg across Mumbai and adjoining areas, citing higher gas procurement costs linked to the ongoing conflict in West Asia and reduced domestic gas allocation.
The revised price will take effect from midnight on October 31, MGL said in a statement issued on Saturday. The increase is the second consecutive monthly hike announced by the city gas distributor and will affect nearly 12.93 lakh vehicles across the Mumbai Metropolitan Region that use MGL-supplied CNG.
The affected vehicles include auto-rickshaws, taxis, private cars and public transport vehicles operated by state authorities and municipal corporations. For these users, the revision will raise the fuel cost of daily commuting and commercial passenger transport from November 1.
MGL attributed the increase to a sharp rise in the cost of input gas. The company said the continuing crisis involving the United States, Israel and Iran had disrupted oil supplies and pushed up the prices of domestically produced gas and imported regasified liquefied natural gas, or RLNG. Both sources are linked to international benchmarks, according to the company.
MGL also cited a reduction in the allocation of domestic gas and a growing dependence on higher-cost sources as factors behind the latest revision. The company said the increase was intended to partially offset higher input costs while ensuring continued CNG supply to consumers.
The latest increase follows a Re 1 per kg revision that took the price to Rs 89 per kg from October 1. In September, MGL had raised the rate by Rs 2 per kg, taking it to Rs 88 per kg. The company had earlier revised CNG prices to Rs 86 per kg in May, when it also increased the price of piped natural gas to Rs 52 per standard cubic metre.
The successive revisions come as CNG remains a major fuel for Mumbai’s autorickshaws, taxis and other urban transport vehicles. The scale of MGL’s customer base means that the change applies across a large part of the region’s road-based mobility network rather than only to private vehicle owners.
MGL said it would continue to explore ways to optimise procurement costs while promoting natural gas as a cleaner fuel alternative. The company did not announce any separate relief measure for public transport operators, commercial drivers or other CNG users in the statement.
