{"id":357910,"date":"2020-06-17T12:18:33","date_gmt":"2020-06-17T06:48:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=357910"},"modified":"2020-06-17T12:18:33","modified_gmt":"2020-06-17T06:48:33","slug":"diesel-price-hits-all-time-high-ludhiana-petrol-pump-owners-transporters-cry-foul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/diesel-price-hits-all-time-high-ludhiana-petrol-pump-owners-transporters-cry-foul\/","title":{"rendered":"Diesel price hits all-time high; Ludhiana petrol pump owners, transporters cry foul"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Raising a hue and cry over the increase in the value- added tax (VAT) on fuel, announced by the state government on Monday, petrol pump owners rued that the price of diesel has increased by around Rs 7 per litre during the last week and its price on Tuesday &#8212; Rs 69.54 per litre &#8212; hit an all-time high in the past seven decades.<\/p>\n<p>Ruing that the price of petrol increased by Rs 1.03 per litre and that of diesel by Rs 1.47 on Tuesday, members of the Ludhiana Petrol Pump Dealers Association are contemplating to launch an agitation against the government. Prices of petrol and diesel on Tuesday were Rs 78.40 and Rs 69.54 per litre respectively.<\/p>\n<p>President of the Ludhiana Petrol Pump Dealers Association, Ranjit Singh Gandhi, said, \u201cThe government did not even provide relief when crude oil prices were at an all-time low during lockdown. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Raising a hue and cry over the increase in the value- added tax (VAT) on fuel, announced by the state government on Monday, petrol pump owners rued that the price of diesel has increased by around Rs 7 per litre during the last week and its price on Tuesday &#8212; Rs 69.54 per litre &#8212; hit an all-time high in the past seven decades. Ruing that the price of petrol increased by Rs 1.03 per litre and that of diesel by Rs 1.47 on Tuesday, members of the Ludhiana Petrol Pump Dealers Association are contemplating to launch an agitation against [&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-357910","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\/357910","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=357910"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357910\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=357910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=357910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=357910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}