{"id":359351,"date":"2020-06-25T12:26:58","date_gmt":"2020-06-25T06:56:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=359351"},"modified":"2020-06-25T12:26:58","modified_gmt":"2020-06-25T06:56:58","slug":"transport-bodies-in-delhi-threaten-strike-after-higher-vat-on-diesel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/transport-bodies-in-delhi-threaten-strike-after-higher-vat-on-diesel\/","title":{"rendered":"Transport bodies in Delhi threaten strike after higher VAT on diesel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI:  As diesel prices were hiked by for the 18th straight day on Wednesday, becoming costlier than petrol for the first time, the Delhi Petrol and Diesel Deals and the Transport and Truck Operators have threatened to call for a \u2018chakka jam\u2019 in the national capital if the AAP government doesn\u2019t roll back the VAT on fuels.<\/p>\n<p>The associations said they will hold a meeting and submit a memorandum to the Delhi government over the high VAT on the diesel price. According to a price notification of state oil marketing companies, petrol price was unchanged after 17 consecutive increases, while diesel rates were hiked by 48 paise per litre, the 18th daily increase in a row across the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: As diesel prices were hiked by for the 18th straight day on Wednesday, becoming costlier than petrol for the first time, the Delhi Petrol and Diesel Deals and the Transport and Truck Operators have threatened to call for a \u2018chakka jam\u2019 in the national capital if the AAP government doesn\u2019t roll back the VAT on fuels. The associations said they will hold a meeting and submit a memorandum to the Delhi government over the high VAT on the diesel price. According to a price notification of state oil marketing companies, petrol price was unchanged after 17 consecutive increases, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,207,143],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-359351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-the-new-indian-express","category-the-new-indian-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359351","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\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=359351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359351\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=359351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=359351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=359351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}