HYDERABAD: Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led BJP government has collected Rs 6.85 lakh crore from the motorists among others towards tax levied on petrol and diesel in the last three financial years from 2018-19 to 2020-21.
This was stated by Union petroleum and natural gas minister Dharmendra Pradhan in a written reply to the questions asked by Congress MP A Revanth Reddy among other members in Lok Sabha on Monday.
The tax collection from petrol and diesel in 2013 was about Rs 52,537 crore. It was Rs 2.13 lakh crore in 2019-19, Rs 1.78 lakh crore in 2019-20 and Rs 2.94 lakh in 2020-21.
The price of the domestic cooking gas cylinder refill increased from Rs 410.5 on March 1, 2014 to Rs 819 as on March 1, 2021.
