{"id":359565,"date":"2020-06-26T11:49:03","date_gmt":"2020-06-26T06:19:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=359565"},"modified":"2020-06-26T12:16:44","modified_gmt":"2020-06-26T06:46:44","slug":"costlier-diesel-fuels-demand-for-taxi-fare-hike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/costlier-diesel-fuels-demand-for-taxi-fare-hike\/","title":{"rendered":"Costlier diesel fuels demand for taxi fare hike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Taxi unions have written to chief minister Mamata Banerjee and transport minister Suvendu Adhikari asking for a fare hike, following a steep hike in the diesel price that has only compounded their sufferings inflicted by the Covid-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>The diesel price has gone up from Rs 65.62 a litre on June 1 to Rs 75.18 on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Officials of the transport department on Thursday met taxi operators and sought time till July 14 to arrive at a decision on revising fares. \u201cWe will hold talks with taxi operators over the next few days to understand the challenges they are facing,\u201d an official said.<\/p>\n<p>The Bengal Taxi Association, one of the organisations that has written to Mamata and Adhikari, has threatened to go on strike from July 16 if the government refuses to revise fares by July 14.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taxi unions have written to chief minister Mamata Banerjee and transport minister Suvendu Adhikari asking for a fare hike, following a steep hike in the diesel price that has only compounded their sufferings inflicted by the Covid-19 pandemic. The diesel price has gone up from Rs 65.62 a litre on June 1 to Rs 75.18 on Thursday. Officials of the transport department on Thursday met taxi operators and sought time till July 14 to arrive at a decision on revising fares. \u201cWe will hold talks with taxi operators over the next few days to understand the challenges they are facing,\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,215,148],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-359565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-the-telegraph","category-the-telegraph"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359565","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\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=359565"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359565\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=359565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=359565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=359565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}