{"id":280584,"date":"2019-07-06T05:29:54","date_gmt":"2019-07-06T05:29:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=280584"},"modified":"2019-07-06T05:29:54","modified_gmt":"2019-07-06T05:29:54","slug":"fuel-price-to-go-up-thanks-to-budget","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/fuel-price-to-go-up-thanks-to-budget\/","title":{"rendered":"Fuel price to go up, thanks to Budget"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Consumers will feel the pinch as petrol and diesel prices are being hiked by up to \u20b92.70 a litre from midnight.<\/p>\n<p>This follows the Budget 2019-2020 move to hike special additional excise duty as well as road and infrastructure cess by a rupee each per litre on both products.<\/p>\n<p>Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman has decided to take advantage of the softening crude prices. I propose to increase Special Additional Excise duty and Road and Infrastructure Cess each by one rupee a litre on petrol and diesel,\u201d she said in her Budget speech.<\/p>\n<p>She also said that the petroleum crude duty is proposed to be hiked from nil to \u20b91 a tonne.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Consumers will feel the pinch as petrol and diesel prices are being hiked by up to \u20b92.70 a litre from midnight. This follows the Budget 2019-2020 move to hike special additional excise duty as well as road and infrastructure cess by a rupee each per litre on both products. Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman has decided to take advantage of the softening crude prices. I propose to increase Special Additional Excise duty and Road and Infrastructure Cess each by one rupee a litre on petrol and diesel,\u201d she said in her Budget speech. She also said that the petroleum crude duty [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-280584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280584","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=280584"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280584\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=280584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=280584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=280584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}