New Delhi: In a move that has sent shockwaves to LPG customers, oil companies have hiked  the price of non-subsidized cooking gas (LPG), which customers buy after consuming their quota of subsidized cylinders, by Rs 220 per cylinder on Wednesday January 1.

It is stated that the 14.2-kg cooking gas cylinder that consumers buy apart from the nine cylinders at subsidized rates, will now cost Rs 1,241, up from Rs 1,021. Whereas it is also learnt that commercial gas price has been hiked by a steep Rs 2000. This is the third increase in non-subsidized LPG rates in the past one month.

The price was hiked by Rs 63 a cylinder to Rs 1,017.50 on December 1 after which the government raised the commission for LPG dealers and distributors that increased the rate from Rs 3.50 to Rs 1,021 on December 11.