Vehicle owners, a majority of whom have tightened their purse strings on account of financial distress caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, are unhappy with the consistent rise in fuel prices.
For the first time, price of petrol in Bengaluru breached the ₹100 mark. The price of petrol rose from ₹99.89 per litre to ₹100.17 on Thursday night.
A. Balaji Rao, president of Bangalore Petroleum Dealers’ Association, said the new rate came into effect on Friday.
The price of diesel in Bengaluru went up from ₹92.66 per litre to ₹92.97.
In other districts, such as Ballari and Shivamogga, the price of petrol had touched ₹100 last week.
While the Karnataka government has eased up on the restrictions imposed during the lockdown to prevent the spread of the second wave of COVID-19, people have been relying on personal vehicles to commute to work in the absence of bus and metro services.
Ashish K. from Bengaluru, who uses his car daily to commute to work, said, “With salary cuts and a…