Government Announces Petrol and Diesel Price Revision

PRESS NOTE Statement by Hon'ble Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Thiru. C. Joseph Vijay regarding the increase in the price of petroleum products by Union Government-owned oil companies today (15.05.2026) ------ Union Government-owned oil companies have increased the price of petroleum products, specifically petrol by Rs.3/- per litre and diesel by Rs.3/- per litre. This was unexpected. [Note: The remaining paragraphs of this document were severely garbled in the OCR extraction (characters were substituted, rendering the text meaningless) and could not be accurately recovered. From the headline and opening sentence, it is clear only that this is a statement by the Hon'ble Chief Minister concerning a hike in petrol and diesel prices by Union Government-owned oil companies; the detailed reasoning and further remarks could not be recovered due to OCR corruption.] ********* Issued By: Director, Directorate of Information and Public Relations, Chennai-9 [OCR extraction was severely corrupted for this source — the Tamil text throughout the body of this document appears to have been extracted with systematic character substitution (a font/encoding mismatch typical of certain Tamil PDF exports), rendering most sentences unintelligible. Only the headline and the opening sentence could be confidently reconstructed from context; the remainder of the document could not be reliably recovered and has been omitted rather than invented.]