A kilo of CNG in Vadodara now costs Rs 90.50, up Rs 1.50 from Rs 89. Vadodara Gas Ltd (VGL) also raised domestic piped gas by 50 paise, from Rs 55.74 to Rs 56.24 per standard cubic metre (SCM) before VAT. The new rates took effect at 6 am on Saturday, November 1, ETV Bharat Gujarat reported, a week before Diwali.
VGL is a joint venture of the Vadodara Municipal Corporation and GAIL Gas Ltd, so the city’s own civic body is a partner in the company raising the price. The increase reaches about 3.97 lakh customers, according to Gujarat Samachar: roughly 2.82 lakh homes, 3,000 commercial units and 71 industrial units on piped gas, plus more than 1.15 lakh CNG vehicle owners. The paper put VGL’s CNG sales at over 1.60 lakh kg a day.
VGL blames imported LNG and a weaker rupee
The company pointed to three cost lines between September 2025 and September 2026, DeshGujarat reported. The landed price of imported regasified LNG (RLNG) rose about 26%, domestic gas under the APM and non-APM pricing rules rose about 19%, and the dollar gained nearly 8% against the rupee. City gas distributors pay for most of their imported gas in dollars, so a weaker rupee raises their bill even when the global price holds steady.
Set against those inputs, the retail increase is modest: 1.7% on CNG and under 1% on PNG. VGL has not said whether it expects to raise prices again.
What Rs 1.50 a kilo adds up to
For an auto-rickshaw driver who fills around 5 kg of CNG a day, the new rate adds Rs 7.50 a day, or roughly Rs 225 over a 30-day month. For a household, every 10 SCM of piped gas now costs Rs 5 more before tax. Home gas bills rise less than CNG bills in proportion, because the PNG increase is about half as large in percentage terms.
Over a longer span the rise looks steeper. Gujarat Samachar noted that CNG cost about Rs 53 a kilo in Vadodara in 2021 and domestic PNG about Rs 35.65 per SCM in 2022. On those figures, CNG has gone up by Rs 37.50 a kilo, about 71%, in five years, and PNG by Rs 20.59, about 58%, in four.
Still about Rs 8 below Ahmedabad’s rate
Vadodara’s CNG remains cheaper than Ahmedabad’s. Adani Total Gas raised its CNG price by Rs 4.45 a kilo last month, which took the Ahmedabad rate to Rs 98.47, as we reported in October. At Rs 90.50, a Vadodara motorist still pays close to Rs 8 a kilo less. Drivers who regularly travel the expressway between the two cities can fill up at the Vadodara end and save on each trip.
Sources: ETV Bharat Gujarat, Gujarat Samachar, DeshGujarat
This report was written with AI assistance from the publicly reported sources linked here; each fact was cross-checked against at least two of them.