{"id":280742,"date":"2019-07-06T07:02:23","date_gmt":"2019-07-06T07:02:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=280742"},"modified":"2019-07-06T07:02:23","modified_gmt":"2019-07-06T07:02:23","slug":"exclusive-fuel-price-hike-will-not-hurt-middle-class-says%e2%80%89nitin-gadkari","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/exclusive-fuel-price-hike-will-not-hurt-middle-class-says%e2%80%89nitin-gadkari\/","title":{"rendered":"Exclusive | \u2018Fuel price hike will not hurt middle-class,\u2019 says\u2009Nitin Gadkari"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nitin Gadkari, Union Minister for Road Transport &amp; Highways and Ministry of Micro, Small &amp; Medium Enterprises, spoke to Anisha Dutta on the centre\u2019s proposal to hike fuel prices and provide huge tax rebates on electric vehicles in the union budget 2019-20. Edited excerpts:<\/p>\n<p>Don\u2019t you think the move to increase Special Additional Excise duty and Road and Infrastructure Cess each by one rupee a litre on petrol and diesel will pinch the middle class?<\/p>\n<p>No it won\u2019t. Actually the prices in the international markets for oil have reduced and this additional Rs 2 will get accommodated in that. The excise duty and the increase in the road cess will keep current rates the same; only the price which was supposed to reduce won\u2019t. It will be compensated by (lower) international prices and this money will contribute in a big way towards infrastructure development and aid state governments in their budget.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nitin Gadkari, Union Minister for Road Transport &amp; Highways and Ministry of Micro, Small &amp; Medium Enterprises, spoke to Anisha Dutta on the centre\u2019s proposal to hike fuel prices and provide huge tax rebates on electric vehicles in the union budget 2019-20. Edited excerpts: Don\u2019t you think the move to increase Special Additional Excise duty and Road and Infrastructure Cess each by one rupee a litre on petrol and diesel will pinch the middle class? No it won\u2019t. Actually the prices in the international markets for oil have reduced and this additional Rs 2 will get accommodated in that. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[141,130,183],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-280742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hindustantimes","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-hindustantimes"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280742","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\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=280742"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280742\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=280742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=280742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=280742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}