A decision on fuel price hike will be taken on January 17, Union Petroleum Minister Murli Deora said on Monday.
"On January 17, the Group of Ministers is meeting under the chairmanship of Pranab Mukherjee in Delhi and that time it will be decided what will happen to the prices," he said.
"Nobody can say now whether the prices will be increased or not," Deora told reporters after inaugurating an international conference of petroleum geo-physicists in Hyderabad.