{"id":351839,"date":"2020-05-18T11:26:52","date_gmt":"2020-05-18T05:56:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=351839"},"modified":"2020-05-18T11:26:52","modified_gmt":"2020-05-18T05:56:52","slug":"petrol-diesel-becomes-costlier-in-odisha-after-vat-hike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/petrol-diesel-becomes-costlier-in-odisha-after-vat-hike\/","title":{"rendered":"Petrol, diesel becomes costlier in Odisha after VAT hike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BHUBANESWAR : To shore up revenues during the coronavirus-induced lockdown, the cash-strapped Odisha government has hiked value added tax (VAT) on petrol and diesel. As a result, the two fuels have now become costlier by \u20b93.11 per litre and \u20b91.03 per litre, respectively.<\/p>\n<p>After the VAT hike, the retail sale price of petrol at Bhubaneswar is \u20b971.69 per litre and diesel \u20b967.73 per litre. The Odisha government has hiked VAT on petrol from 26% to 32% and on diesel from 26% to 28% with effect from Saturday midnight.<\/p>\n<p>The collection of additional revenue would be utilised for delivery of services in health, education and other social sectors, a government statement said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BHUBANESWAR : To shore up revenues during the coronavirus-induced lockdown, the cash-strapped Odisha government has hiked value added tax (VAT) on petrol and diesel. As a result, the two fuels have now become costlier by \u20b93.11 per litre and \u20b91.03 per litre, respectively. After the VAT hike, the retail sale price of petrol at Bhubaneswar is \u20b971.69 per litre and diesel \u20b967.73 per litre. The Odisha government has hiked VAT on petrol from 26% to 32% and on diesel from 26% to 28% with effect from Saturday midnight. The collection of additional revenue would be utilised for delivery of services [&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-351839","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\/351839","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=351839"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351839\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=351839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=351839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=351839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}