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The price isn't right

With prices set to rise further as a repercussion of the recently implemented petrol price hike, MiD DAY visited single-income, double-income and pensioners' households to find out how they are tackling the escalating costs

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With prices set to rise further as a repercussion of the recently implemented petrol price hike, MiD DAY visited single-income, double-income and pensioners' households to find out how they are tackling the escalating costs

The Rs 3 hike in petrol that kicked in from Friday fuelled political outrage and made a mockery of Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee's bold claim that the worst is over, with inflation having peaked, and all set to gradually moderate.

Even petrol pumps are finding it hard to keep up with recurrent price hikes. Some of them, such as this one at Mulund, are still showing the old price of Rs 68 instead of the Rs 71 that the common man, such as this one, will have to shell out. What is he to do but scratch his head?

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