India's fuel consumption rose 1.7 per cent to 12.09 mn tonne in June on back of high demand for auto fuel, official data released here said.
Petrol sales increased 12.7 per cent to 1.24 million tonne in June against 1.1 mn tonne a year ago, according to the data.
Consumption of diesel was up 6.9 per cent to 5.19 mn tonne as opposed to 4.86 mn tonne in June 2009.
With the economy growing at over 8 per cent, demand for fuel has soared.
Naphtha demand, however, fell 6 per cent to 753,700 tonne as gas from Reliance Industries' eastern offshore KG-D6 fields replaced it as fuel in power plants.
Sales of imported LNG fell 15.5 per cent to 612,400 tonne as Petronet LNG Ltd did not import any cargo from spot market.
Jet fuel sales rose 10.5 per cent to 402,200 tonne and LPG demand rose 8.7 per cent to 1.06 mn tonne.
Kerosene consumption fell 8.6 per cent to 714,600 tonne.
During the first quarter of current fiscal, petrol sales soared 11.9 per cent to 3.61 mn tonne from 3.22 mn tonne. Diesel consumption was up 10.6 per cent to 15.84 mn tonne from 14.33 mn tonne.