{"id":342069,"date":"2020-03-16T12:09:41","date_gmt":"2020-03-16T06:39:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=342069"},"modified":"2020-03-16T14:16:03","modified_gmt":"2020-03-16T08:46:03","slug":"petrol-prices-fall-by-12-paise-diesel-by-14-paise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/petrol-prices-fall-by-12-paise-diesel-by-14-paise\/","title":{"rendered":"Petrol prices fall by 12 paise; diesel by 14 paise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Retail fuel prices were cut further on Sunday, with petrol getting cheaper by 12 paise a litre and diesel by 14 paise. Prices fell modestly as oil companies moderated rate reduction amid the fall in global prices to absorb the hike in excise duty on fuel by the government.<\/p>\n<p>Petrol in Delhi now costs Rs 69.75 per litre, while diesel is priced at Rs 62.44, according to a price notification of state-owned oil firms.<\/p>\n<p>Delhi has the lowest fuel prices among metros because of lower state taxes.<\/p>\n<p>The government had on Saturday hiked excise duty on petrol and diesel by Rs 3 per litre each to garner about Rs 39,000 crore additional revenue as it repeated its 2014-15 act of not passing on gains arising from the slump in international oil prices.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Retail fuel prices were cut further on Sunday, with petrol getting cheaper by 12 paise a litre and diesel by 14 paise. Prices fell modestly as oil companies moderated rate reduction amid the fall in global prices to absorb the hike in excise duty on fuel by the government. Petrol in Delhi now costs Rs 69.75 per litre, while diesel is priced at Rs 62.44, according to a price notification of state-owned oil firms. Delhi has the lowest fuel prices among metros because of lower state taxes. The government had on Saturday hiked excise duty on petrol and diesel by [&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":[130,191,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-342069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342069","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=342069"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342069\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=342069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=342069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=342069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}