Daijiworld Media Network - Bengaluru (MS)
Bengaluru, Jul 14: From Saturday, July 14, the petrol and diesel in the state of Karnataka will be dearer by Rs 1.14 and Rs 1.12 respectively. As per the proposal made in regards to this price rise by the chief minister H D Kumaraswamy in the recently published budget, this hike is done.
Government is going to issue an official notification of the same on Saturday.
It might be recalled that the sales tax on petrol and diesel was raised by two percentage points by H D Kumaraswamy in the budget that was announced on July 5.
The tax on the electricity is also increased from 6% to 9% in the budget. However, as the electricity supply companies have not yet received any official confirmation from the government in this regard, they have not implemented the price rise as of now.