<div><span style="font-size: 1rem;"><b>The price of liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) has been increased to Tk 119.40 per kg for the month of January, from Tk 117.02 in December, said BERC.</b></span><br></div><div><br></div><div>Retail consumers will have to pay an additional Tk 2.41 per kg of LPG from 6 pm on Tuesday, according to Bangladesh Energy Regulatory Commission (BERC).</div><div><br></div><div>The energy regulator announced the new price, saying that retail consumers will now have to play Tk 1433 (including VAT) for a 12 kg cylinder of LPG. The previous price of a 12 kg LPG cylinder was Tk 1,404.</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 Tuesday 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 65.76 per litre (including VAT) from Tk Tk 64.43 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 last year following the start of the Russia-Ukraine war in February. Accoding to UNB reports&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>