<div><span style="font-size: 1rem;"><b>The price of liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) has been hiked again on Sunday. Retail consumers will have to pay an additional Tk 1.91 per kg of LPG from 6:00 pm today.</b></span><br></div><div><br></div><div>Bangladesh Energy Regulatory Commission (BERC) announced the new price, saying that retail consumers will now have to play Tk 1,404 (VAT included) for a 12 kg cylinder of LPG. The previous price of a 12 kg LPG cylinder was Tk 1,381.</div><div><br></div><div>LPG price has increased to Tk 117.02 per kg for the month of December, from Tk 115.09 in November, said BERC.</div><div><br></div><div>Prices of other LPG cylinders – from 5.5 kg to 45 kg – will go up rationally, Md Nurul Amin, chairman of BERC, said on Sunday at a press briefing at the BERC office in Dhaka.</div><div><br></div><div>As per the BERC decision, the price of “auto gas” (LPG used for motor vehicles) also increased to Tk Tk 64.43 per litre (including VAT) from Tk 63.36 per litre.</div><div><br></div><div>The price of LPG, marketed by the state-owned LP Gas Company, will remain the same as it is locally produced with a market share of less than 5 percent.</div><div><br></div><div>BERC officials said LPG price will witness an increase in the local market due to increase in the prices of Saudi CP (contract price).</div><div><br></div><div>Bangladeshi LPG operators normally import their products from the Middle-eastern market on the basis of Saudi CP.</div><div><br></div><div>LPG witnessed the highest price at Tk 1,498 (per 12 kg cylinder) in the local market in February this year following the start of the Russia-Ukraine war in February last year. According to UNB reports&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div><div><br></div>