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Earlier this month, the Finance Ministry began the budgetary exercise for 2019-20. During the process, meetings will be held with different ministries to finalise revised expenditure for the current fiscal and projections for the next financial year.

Diesel was being sold at Rs 80.69 per litre, while petrol cost 80.57 per litre.

The Centre had cut excise duty cut on fuel by Rs 1.50 per lite and had asked oil marketing companies (OMSs) to subsidise petrol and diesel prices by Re 1 a litre.

Within a day of the one-off excise duty cut and PSUs subsidising fuel, petrol and diesel prices are on the rise again and have hit a three week high.