(ET)
Consumers need not pay more for higher grade fuel being sold across all petrol pumps in Delhi from Sunday nor should they immediately expect a dramatic drop in air pollution due to fuel switch.
Oil companies have begun selling Bharat Stage (BS)-VI emission standard compliant petrol and diesel at all 391 filling stations in Delhi, meeting the government-set deadline. Advancing deadlines for selling cleaner fuel is among several measures the government has taken in the last few years to curb the killer air pollution in the Capital.
State companies don’t plan to recover the incremental cost incurred in producing higher grade fuel from customers ‘immediately’ but may do so after April 2020 when the BS-VI petrol and diesel begin selling across the country, said B V Rama Gopal, Director (Refineries) of Indian Oil Corp, the country’s largest refiner and fuel retailer that controls nearly half of all filling stations in Delhi as well as the country.
