{"id":350263,"date":"2020-05-07T12:53:51","date_gmt":"2020-05-07T07:23:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=350263"},"modified":"2020-05-07T12:53:51","modified_gmt":"2020-05-07T07:23:51","slug":"petrol-diesel-price-today-15-states-where-rates-went-up-during-lockdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/petrol-diesel-price-today-15-states-where-rates-went-up-during-lockdown\/","title":{"rendered":"Petrol, diesel price today: 15 states where rates went up during lockdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI : When the central government raised excise duty on petrol and diesel by \u20b910-13 per litre yesterday, state-run oil marketing companies did not increase retail selling prices and chose to offset it against the fall in crude oil rates. However, rates of the two automobile fuels have still went up during the lockdown as at least 15 state governments have so far hiked VAT or value added tax on petrol and diesel.<\/p>\n<p>Oil marketing companies have not changed their base price of the two fuels after March 16 due as Brent crude oil rates went down to a two-decade low level due to a slump in global demand following lockdowns in several countries.<\/p>\n<p>Across cities like Delhi, Mumbai, Pune, Bengaluru, Noida, Gurgaon and Chandigarh, the price of petrol and diesel went up during lockdown, which began on March 25, as the respective state governments imposed VAT hikes to shore up falling revenues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI : When the central government raised excise duty on petrol and diesel by \u20b910-13 per litre yesterday, state-run oil marketing companies did not increase retail selling prices and chose to offset it against the fall in crude oil rates. However, rates of the two automobile fuels have still went up during the lockdown as at least 15 state governments have so far hiked VAT or value added tax on petrol and diesel. Oil marketing companies have not changed their base price of the two fuels after March 16 due as Brent crude oil rates went down to a [&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-350263","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\/350263","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=350263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350263\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=350263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=350263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=350263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}