{"id":360643,"date":"2020-07-02T10:25:23","date_gmt":"2020-07-02T04:55:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=360643"},"modified":"2020-07-02T10:45:34","modified_gmt":"2020-07-02T05:15:34","slug":"indias-fuel-sales-in-june-at-88-of-pre-covid-levels-says-govt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/indias-fuel-sales-in-june-at-88-of-pre-covid-levels-says-govt\/","title":{"rendered":"India&#8217;s fuel sales in June at 88% of pre-Covid levels, says govt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>India&#8217;s fuel sales in June reached 88 per cent of the pre-Covid-19 levels as easing of lockdown restrictions is reviving economic activities, the government said on Wednesday. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The sales of petroleum products in India, the world&#8217;s third-biggest oil consuming nation, had in April fallen to the lowest since 2007, due to the nationwide lockdown, necessitated to prevent the spread of Covid-19 pandemic,&#8221; an official statement said. <\/p>\n<p>Demand, however, began to revive in May and in June reached 88 per cent of pre-Covid levels, it said. &#8220;India&#8217;s overall petroleum products consumption, which had nosedived in last week of March and April this year, is now steadily getting to its pre-lockdown levels in June, as emanating from the PSUs&#8217; (IOC, BPCL, and HPCL) sales figures,&#8221; it said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India&#8217;s fuel sales in June reached 88 per cent of the pre-Covid-19 levels as easing of lockdown restrictions is reviving economic activities, the government said on Wednesday. &#8220;The sales of petroleum products in India, the world&#8217;s third-biggest oil consuming nation, had in April fallen to the lowest since 2007, due to the nationwide lockdown, necessitated to prevent the spread of Covid-19 pandemic,&#8221; an official statement said. Demand, however, began to revive in May and in June reached 88 per cent of pre-Covid levels, it said. &#8220;India&#8217;s overall petroleum products consumption, which had nosedived in last week of March and April [&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":[135,130,169],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-360643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-business-standard-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360643","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=360643"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360643\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=360643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=360643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=360643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}