{"id":349966,"date":"2020-05-06T13:11:09","date_gmt":"2020-05-06T07:41:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=349966"},"modified":"2020-05-06T13:11:09","modified_gmt":"2020-05-06T07:41:09","slug":"petrol-diesel-prices-hiked-by-%e2%82%b92-in-punjab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/petrol-diesel-prices-hiked-by-%e2%82%b92-in-punjab\/","title":{"rendered":"Petrol, diesel prices hiked by \u20b92 in Punjab"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Retail prices of petrol and diesel will go up by \u20b92 per litre each in Punjab as the state government increased the tax on petrol and diesel on Tuesday night. It raised the value added tax (VAT) on diesel from 11.80 per cent to 15.15 per cent and on petrol from 20.11 per cent to 23.30 per cent, official said.<\/p>\n<p>After the raise in VAT on fuel, the retail rate of petrol will increase from \u20b970.38 a litre to 72.43 a litre, while the rate of diesel will go up from \u20b962.02 a litre to \u20b964.06 a litre, said Ashwinder Mongia, a member of the Punjab Petroleum Dealers Association.<\/p>\n<p>Mongia slammed the state government for increasing the VAT rates, saying it would encourage smuggling of fuel and adversely hit the interest of petroleum dealers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Retail prices of petrol and diesel will go up by \u20b92 per litre each in Punjab as the state government increased the tax on petrol and diesel on Tuesday night. It raised the value added tax (VAT) on diesel from 11.80 per cent to 15.15 per cent and on petrol from 20.11 per cent to 23.30 per cent, official said. After the raise in VAT on fuel, the retail rate of petrol will increase from \u20b970.38 a litre to 72.43 a litre, while the rate of diesel will go up from \u20b962.02 a litre to \u20b964.06 a litre, said Ashwinder [&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":[139,130,187],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-349966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-live-mint","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-live-mint"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349966","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=349966"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349966\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=349966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=349966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=349966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}